We just did this.

Still fun to see folks getting angry over ketchup, though.

If you like Heinz, and want to save more than "27 cents," try the ketchup at Aldi. I swear they are identical.

Oh, feh. You have friends over for a barbecue and cook on a grill, and if some stickler on how the word is used where he's from is upset, so much the better.

You have a long row to hoe if you want to try to convince EVERY DICTIONARY otherwise.

Now, when the food itself is called barbecue, that's different. Don't ask me if I want some BBQ and give me a lousy burger.

Except people use the word "incorrectly" all the time, which makes it "correct." Language evolves.

Dictionary.

Yes, of all things to get riled up about...

The word comes from a native Haitian word, barbakoa, a framework of sticks on posts, originally to sleep on! Sounds like something to get your panties in a twist about, alright! The North American usage of grilling meat over fire is from 1931. Only 90 years ago!

A regional penchant for doing so slowly with smoke doesn't get to claim the word as exclusively its own, sorry all you Bubbas.

I'd be interested in a poll:

Natural (snappy) casing?

- Yes, please!

- No, thanks

- Eww, gross! You know what that is, right?

Yeah, may be no worse than some of the stuff ground up inside, but it's RIGHT THERE.

(I love them anyway, for the record. Soft is for kids!)

I suppose I could eat a hot dog without ketchup.

I'm just not sure why I'd want to, when I like ketchup!

For variety perhaps. That Portillo's does look yummy. Tomatoes! Nothing wrong with some unprocessed lycopene for a change!