Barbecue sauce
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Barbecue sauce or BBQ sauce is a thick liquid flavoring that is poured onto meat while being grilled or barbecued. It is also used as a dipping condiment.
Most barbecue sauces combine sour, sweet, and spicy ingredients, sometimes with a smokey flavour. The most popular are tomato-based, with vinegar and sugar; but vinegar- and mustard-based sauces are popular in the certain areas of the American south.
Outside of barbecuing, store-bought sauce is often used on meat or other foods as a condiment.
Different geographical regions have strong allegiances to their particular styles and recipes, often creating lore and keeping their unique recipes secret.
Some popular styles of sauce and their distinguishing ingredients:
- Kansas City (thick, red-brown, tomato, molasses)
- North Carolina (liquidy vinegar, pepper flakes)
- South Carolina (mustard, vinegar, black pepper)
- Alabama (white mayonnaise based)
- Arkansas (thin vinegar and tomato base, spiced with pepper and slightly sweetened by molasses)
- Texas (tomato based with hot chiles, cumin, less sweet).
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