The Arawak/Taino connection does come to mind when the barbecue-as-a-word thing comes up, (but thankfully not when the food itself comes up because being in SC would be really depressing*) but I never had the urge in that thread to moralize about it.
I was just gonna ask if someone claimed barbecue was cultural appropriation. (like rice cookers!) Sometimes I am very glad I do not have much of a following on social media.
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