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| | What do we mean when we talk about barbecue… |
 | | As we all know it, the word “barbecue” defines both a method and an apparatus for cooking food, often meat, with the heat and hot gases of a fire, smoking wood, or hot coals of charcoal and may include application of a marinade or basting sauce to the meat. |
 | | In Texas, meanwhile, barbecue is often eaten with no sauce at all so as not to distract from the natural flavor of the meat in question (which, in Texas, is generally beef, however chicken is also common, a meat not often found barbecued in other states). |
 | | Other barbecue competitions are held in virtually every state in the United States during the warmer months, usually beginning in April and going through September. |
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