[lit-ideas] Philosophers' Bar-B-Q (Horace' Sat. II ii 26)
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From Tylor's "Anthropological Encounters with the Haitian Indians"
"Then Maj. Roberts pointed to me a rough carving on a log." "What does it
read?", I asked him. As he paced to decipher the runic symbols, he said,
"It's a "B", and another "B" and a "Q"", "Mmm", I said, "bee bee kew". I'll
write that down. It smells funny, too." "And there are hog's hairs nearby,
look."
"Must be some cooking method, _or other_."
p. 38
Found Geary's correct spelling! Under BBQ:
BBQ, Spelling forms: 19- BBQ, B-B-que.
[Shortened < BARBECUE n., as a graphic abbreviation. Sometimes interpreted
as an initialism, with the corresponding pronunication Brit. /bibikju/, U.S.
/bibikju/. Cf. earlier BAR-B-Q n.]
= BARBECUE n. 4. Also: food that has been barbecued or flavoured with
barbecue flavourings. Freq. attrib.
1938 Los Angeles Times 28 Aug. IIA. 7 (advt.)
Rambling Ranch $14,RamRail fence and olive trees! Built around a large brick
patio with BBQ, wonderful for parties!
1948 Washington Post 2 July 7/4 (advt.) Weiners... ‘Oscar Mayer’ with BBQ
sauce.
1975 Newsweek (Nexis) 2 June 31 Two Japanese houses, tennis court, fish
pond, swim pool, pagoda and BBQ.
1991 Dateline Mag. Feb. 40 (advt.) Are you hardworking, love life, Canada,
camping, B-B-ques, walking, country music?
1994 Toronto Life June 88 (advt.) House specialities include: rouladen,
Schnitzels, BBQ pork hocks, seafood, steaks and German draft beer.
2001 GQ Nov. 267/4 Listen to live music and wolf down some BBQ.
1732 POPE Horace' Sat. II. ii. 26 Send me, Gods! a whole Hog
barbecu'd!
Now -- what's the Latin for _that_?
"When these diabolical operations were gone through, they
finished all by barbikewing of the gentleman!"
Sorry, couldn't resist the 'barbecue', v. -- which _is_ mentioned in my
previous post. Some good quotes, one Texas based, and an original new spelling,
'-ikew', which relates to Geary's Gallic '-eque'.
to barbecue', v. Forms: 7-9 barbacue, -icu(e, 8- ikew, 8- barbecue. [f.
prec. n.]
To dry or cure (flesh, etc.) by exposure upon a barbecue
1661 HICKERINGILL Jamaica 76
Some are slain, And their flesh forthwith Barbacu'd and eat.
1775 ADAIR Amer. Ind. 408 T
hey cut them [pompions] into..slices, which they barbacue, or dry with a slow
heat. 1794
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-s4.html#stedman)
STEDMAN Surinam (1813) I. xv. 406 They use little or no salt, but barbacue
their game and fish in the smoke.
1839 [see BARBECUED 1].
2. To broil or roast (an animal) whole; e.g. to split a hog to the backbone,
fill the belly with wine and stuffing, and cook it on a huge gridiron,
basting with wine. Sometimes, to cook (a joint) with the same accessories. See
also BARBECUE n. 3.
1690 A. BEHN Widow R. II. iv. 356
Let's barbicu this fat rogue.
1702 C. MATHER Magn. Christi VII. vi. (1852) 556
When they came to see the bodies of so many of their countrymen terribly
barbikew'd.
1769 MRS. RAFFALD Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 111 To barbecue a Leg of Pork.
1823 LAMB Roast Pig, Elia (1867) 163 Barbecue your whole hogs to your
palate.
1920 J. M. HUNTER Trail Drivers of Texas 82 We killed and barbecued a beef.
1737 WESLEY Wks. (1872) I. 44 A little barbecued bear's flesh, (that is,
dried in the sun).
1839 W. IRVING Wolfert's R. (1855) 221 Loaded with barbacued meat.
1732 POPE Horace' Sat. II. ii. 26 Send me, Gods! a whole Hog barbecu'd!
1807 MRS. DORSET Peacock at H., A barbecued mouse was prepared for the
owl.
1847 BARHAM Ingol. Leg. (1877) 209
The barbecu'd sucking-pig's crisp'd to a turn.
1705 R. BEVERLEY Virginia III. iv. 13
The Indians have two ways of Broyling, viz. one by laying the Meat..upon
Sticks rais'd upon Forks at some distance above the live Coals..this they, and
we also from them, call Barbacueing.
1716 Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 150
When these diabolical operations were gone through, they finished all by
barbikewing of the gentleman!
1794 STEDMAN Surinam (1813) I. 261
The barbacuing consists in laying the fish upon twigs of wood above the
fire, where, by the smoke, they dry.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 45 (Advt.), Tree shaded patio for summer
barbecueing.
1687 CLAYTON in Phil. Trans. XLI. 160
A Piece of Venison barbecuted, that is, wrapped up in leaves, and roasted in
the Embers.
1743 DK. RICHMOND ibid. XLII. 511
He then laid it quite open like..a Barbacute Pig to be broiled.
1883 E. F. IM THURN Indians of Guiana xi. 248
The meat and most of the fish is smoked or babracoted.
bar-b-q, Forms: 19- bar-b-q, bar-b-que. Also with capital initials.
[Shortened < BARBECUE n., as a graphic abbreviation.]
= BARBECUE n. 4. Also attrib.: designating barbecued or barbecue-flavoured
food.
Freq. used in advertisements for, or names of, restaurants serving barbecued
food.
1926 Mansfield (Ohio) News 8 July (cartoon caption)
The Bar BQ Ranch is jest over that rise.
1960 Spectator 24 June 12 Cockfighting is part of the exotic tropicana
Haiti offers to American Cockfighalong with poolside bar-b-q's.
1978 Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. (Detroit Suppl.) 28/1 (advt.)
Everyday choices include: shrimp, frog legs,..scallops, bar-b-q ribs.
1989 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 1 July 35 (advt.) Americans leaving
Jamaica selling Furniture, and Appliances, including:..Microwave, Bicycles,
Gas Bar-B-Q, [etc.].
2001 enRoute July 61/1, I pulled into the puddle-filled apron of Cooper's
Old Time Bar-B-Que.
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