What does the BQ in bar BQ stand for? Never thought about it till now so I'm asking for the history behind it?

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OMG! I'm SOOOO stupid. I don't know how to I missed that. I guess because every bar in my area has the words "Bar BQ" on it.

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The origins of both the activity of barbecue cooking and the word itself are somewhat obscure. Most etymologists believe that barbecue derives ultimately from the word barabicu found in the language of both the Timucua of Florida and the Taíno people of the Caribbean. The word translates as "sacred fire pit."[2] The word describes a grill for cooking meat, consisting of a wooden platform resting on sticks.
Traditional barbacoa involves digging a hole in the ground and placing some meat (usually a whole goat) with a pot underneath it, so that the juices can make a hearty broth. It is then covered with maguey leaves and coal and set alight. The cooking process takes a few hours.
There is ample evidence that both the word and cooking technique migrated out of the Caribbean and into other languages and cultures, with the word (barbacoa) moving from Caribbean dialects into Spanish, then French and English. The Oxford English Dictionary cites the first recorded use of the word in the English language in 1697 by the British buccaneer William Dampier.[3]
While the standard modern English spelling of the word is barbecue, local variations like barbeque and truncations such as bar-b-q or bbq may also be found.[4] In the southeastern United States, the word barbecue is used predominantly as a noun referring to roast pork, while in the southwestern states, cuts of beef are often cooked.
The word barbecue has attracted several inaccurate origins from folk etymology. An often-repeated claim is that the word is derived from the French language. The story goes that French visitors to the Caribbean saw a pig being cooked whole and described the method as barbe à queue, meaning "from beard to tail". The French word for barbecue is also barbecue, and the "beard to tail" explanation is regarded as false by most language experts. The only merit is that it relies on the similar sound of the words, a feature common in folk-etymology explanations.[5] Another claim states that the word BBQ came from the time when roadhouses and beer joints with pool tables advertised "Bar, Beer and Cues". According to this tale, the phrase was shortened over time to BBCue, then BBQ.[6]

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thanks

Answer 2

First off, its not "bar- BQ". It barbecue. This is from wikipedia:

"The origins of both the activity of barbecue cooking and the word itself are somewhat obscure. Most etymologists believe that barbecue derives ultimately from the word barabicu found in the language of both the Timucua of Florida and the Taíno people of the Caribbean. The word translates as "sacred fire pit."[2] The word describes a grill for cooking meat, consisting of a wooden platform resting on sticks".

Answer 3

I don't think it's supposed to stand for anything, it just sounds like the "becue" in "barbecue" or Bar BQ or BBQ

Answer 4

Um,
It's barbeque.

People just shortened it.
It's not really an acronym dude.

Answer 5

The two letters don't stand for anything. It's just an abbreviation for barbeque.

Answer 6

BBQ is an abbreviation for barbeque, lol

Answer 7

Barbeque

Answer 8

Daaaa!!!!!!!!! Barbeque

Answer 9

it doesnt stand for anything, its real spelling is barbecue. bar b q and bbq are just ways of shortening it

Answer 10

beque

Answer 11

ditto