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True but 20 minutes gives us time to say hello etc before the cooking starts.

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I've been to some ..and had some here at home where the children take charge (they are better at doing them than I am).

I like barbecued food. I eat a lettuce leaf and a tomato with it and fool myself into thinking that this will off-set the effects of all the fatty food being eaten.

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Don't like them Julie, in all the years in all the countries, where I've been to a BBQ, the meat was half cooked, the drinks warm, the midges / mosquito's excessive in number (and biting) and worst of all the humans mostly trying to be extrovert (not succeding) and funny (also not succeding)

I remember one where the hosts had two lovely Labradors who entertained me by catching bits of my (half cooked) hamburger as I dropped it on their noses (well out of site of the owners of course )

Like you I make polite excuses now if there's even a hint of a BBQ invite on the way

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I don't like the flavour of BBQ'd food at all. Have been and tried a few times - much prefer other cooking methods. If I really cannot avoid attendance then I just eat whatever salad is available and crisps !

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A BBQ does bring out the worst in some folks-I had a friend who perfected the art of charcoal wrapped around raw meat. He was a nice chap but the coroner decided he died from complications arising from self neglect. You think I am joking?

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I've only ever been to one BarBQue. It was pleasant enough, but I'm not much of a one for big noisy 'do's.
Why do men who sometimes don't know how to even turn an oven on normally, suddenly decide they are top chefs at Bar-B-Ques?

I was at a little village fun dog show a couple of weeks back, and two men were cooking burgers and hot dogs at a grill standing on the lawns. I couldn't believe it when I saw where they were storing the bread rolls/baps - on the grass under the trestle table, laying in torn cellophane bags!!
How the 'eck did they know if ants were having a feast, or someone's pooch hadn't cocked his leg up them?

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If a man does not know how to cook a full Sunday roast he has no place next to a BBQ. And he always puts the lavatory seat down-these things are self evident

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How does putting the lav seat down qualify someone to cook?

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I wondered about that - then decided perhaps we were better not knowing !

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Done properly you can't beat a good barbie on a nice warm day with plenty of wine and cold beer. Enjoy!!