Barbecue sauce (also abbreviated BBQ sauce) is a liquid flavoring sauce or condiment ranging from watery to quite thick. As the name implies, it was created as an accompaniment to barbecued foods. While it can be applied to any food, it usually tops meat after cooking or during barbecuing, grilling, or baking. Traditionally it has been a favored sauce for pork or beef ribs and chicken. On rarer occasions, it is used for dipping items like fries, as well as a replacement for tomato sauce in barbecue-style pizzas. In some barbecue circles, it is frowned upon to add any condiment, including barbecue sauce, to barbecued food, while others argue that barbecue sauce is central to the barbecue experience.Barbecue sauces may combine sour, sweet, spicy, and tangy ingredients or focus on a particular flavor alone. It sometimes carries with it a smokey flavor. The ingredients vary, but some commonplace items are tomato paste, vinegar, spices, and sweeteners. These variations are often due to regional traditions and recipes.

Federal agents said Thursday they shut down a factory that made marijuana-laced barbecue sauce, chocolate-covered pretzels and other "enhanced" snacks intended for medical users of the drug.The Drug Enforcement Administration said it arrested three people Wednesday and was looking for a fourth who operated Oakland-based Tainted Inc.

Federal agents shut down "Tainted, Inc.," a factory that manufactured marijuana-laced barbecue sauce, chocolate-covered pretzels, and other "enhanced" snacks. 460 plants were seized in the raid of the Oakland-based factory that sold its treats to medical marijuana distributors (among other clients).

THE LATEST TWIST IN THE continuing saga from the land of barbecued cardboard is being felt by toymaker Mattel and their subsidiary Fisher-Price. They are having to recall 83 types of toys at a cost estimated to be $30 million because of lead-based paint being applied to them.

Barbecue is a method and 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 vinegar or tomato-based sauce to the meat

lots of substitutes for a meat based diet; just add some barbecue sauce and butter. give a little bit of thanks, and chow down.