10 Bizarre Moments in BBQ History

I recently spent a magical weekend at a buddy’s cottage, where I discovered that no one actually owns their own cottage, but that they all have friends who do. Aside from the swimming, boating, water-skiing, drinking, laughing, fireside chatting, mother nature connecting and acoustic guitar playing, my favourite part of the weekend was hands down the non-stop barbecuing. Literally every meal involved tossing some form of meat on the grill, whose billowing clouds of delicious smoke must have done to the creatures of the forest what KFC does to all humanoids within a nine block radius.

Which brings me to our last dinner of the weekend. For the first time in my life—a fact that my friends consider sacrilege and I consider shocking—I experienced a Beer Can Chicken. Also known as “Chicken on the Throne,” the meal involves stuffing the business end of a chicken (already dead of course) with an opened can of your favourite brewskie. You then place the whole situation inside your heated barbecue, where you let it cook for a few hours, as the delicious beer bubbles and soaks up into the meat of the chicken. Easily the strangest thing I’ve ever seen involving a barbecue, and easily the one thing I will request that no one does to my body after I’m gone. Over the last few days I’ve been searching for more strange recipes, but what I came up with was an even more interesting list of bizarre barbecue facts.