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Barbecues and similar outdoor gatherings where participants can be socially distant have been marked as being "safer" pandemic activities, according to a running list published by the U.S.

From Fox News • Aug. 26, 2021

Barbecues were a way to gather and celebrate unified values.

From Salon • Jul. 3, 2021

Barbecues are out and roast dinners in, as Britons head indoors to escape the miserable summer .

From The Guardian • Jul. 18, 2012

Barbecues were fired up in countless backyards in a gastronomic ritual of Memorial Day.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2010

All the sewing-bees and quiltings, Apple-parings, and corn-huskings, Barbecues and basket meetings, Chicken-fights, and swift foot-races, Even singing-schools, were banished To the primitive old fogies.

From The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. by Potts, Eugenia Dunlap