What's the difference between a barbecue and a cookout and why doesn't anyone invite me to any of them?

You know why. Oh my god, that was one time.

This is a hot dog is a sandwich.

Catch up is a smoothie. Yeah, I put ice in my cereal, so what?

That makes no sense. Hot dog is a sandwich.

A hot dog is a sandwich.

What?

Welcome to our podcast of Hot Dog is a sandwich.

The show we break down the world's biggest food debates. I'm your host, Josh Shere.

And I'm your host, Nicole Aniety.

And Nicole, this like all good ideas came from a stranger on the internet complaining at me.

Oh, I thought it was just you.

No, well, okay. This is a topic that we talked about discussing because the term barbecue,

it is, it's a little bit confusing.

People think they know what it means, then if you actually press them for a definition,

and this happened because I, I think we were doing the busting hot dog myths episode on the Mythical Kitchen YouTube channel.

Okay.

And I said, yeah, when I go to a barbecue, I like to, and somebody said stop calling it a barbecue,

that's a cookout.

But for me, I grew up calling any sort of outdoor grilling large gathering of barbecue.

But if you were to actually ask me, what does barbecue mean?

I would be like, well, obviously it is an indirect cooking method of low and slow heat using

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