Ingredient
Bbq Sauce
Seven of the kitchens we read put bbq sauce on the menu, on eight plates. Two of them turn up under entree, and it comes as a burger more often than anything else, on four.
In the neighbourhood: The breakfast plate
From 40 menus · bbq sauce is on 8 plates · How we read them
For the curious: the data views
Some of these were read by a script, not a person — those chips have a hollow dot. About the method →
How it comes
The forms it turns up in, most first.
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Where on the menu
The menu sections the dishes sit under, most first.
How it's cooked
How the kitchens cook it, counting the word on the component as well as the plate.
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The journey of bbq sauce
The same 8 plates read outward from the middle: how the kitchens cook it, how it then arrives, and which part of the menu it arrives in. A wedge too narrow for its word carries it in the table underneath.
| Ring | Commonest | Plates |
|---|---|---|
| How it's cooked | fried | 4 |
| How it comes | burger | 3 |
| Where on the menu | entree | 1 |
| Other | 17 other steps, added up | 23 |
| Not stated | the menu never printed that detail | 14 |
Every wedge, as a table
| Cooked | Arrives as | Course | Plates |
|---|---|---|---|
| fried | — | — | 4 |
| fried | burger | — | 3 |
| fried | burger | not stated | 3 |
| fried | nachos | — | 1 |
| fried | nachos | not stated | 1 |
| grilled | — | — | 3 |
| grilled | burger | — | 3 |
| grilled | burger | not stated | 3 |
| barbecued | — | — | 2 |
| barbecued | flatbread | — | 1 |
| barbecued | flatbread | not stated | 1 |
| barbecued | not stated | — | 1 |
| barbecued | not stated | entree | 1 |
| smoked | — | — | 2 |
| smoked | burger | — | 1 |
| smoked | burger | not stated | 1 |
| smoked | wings | — | 1 |
| smoked | wings | appetizer | 1 |
| baked | — | — | 1 |
| baked | nachos | — | 1 |
| baked | nachos | not stated | 1 |
| pulled | — | — | 1 |
| pulled | nachos | — | 1 |
| pulled | nachos | not stated | 1 |
| roasted | — | — | 1 |
| roasted | nachos | — | 1 |
| roasted | nachos | not stated | 1 |
| slow-roasted | — | — | 1 |
| slow-roasted | nachos | — | 1 |
| slow-roasted | nachos | not stated | 1 |
Travels with
What shares a plate with it, counted inside a course and never across one. A partner marked distinctive turns up together far more often than chance.
- Bacon4read by scriptall Bacondistinctive
- Beef2read by scriptall Beef
- Cheese2read by scriptall Cheesedistinctive
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Dishes
Pepperjack, bison and burger come up more here than elsewhere on our list.
Our reading of the menu lists: turkey, oyster, chicken filet.
Our reading of the menu lists broiled, crumbled and crab.
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Our reading of the menu turns up diced, cabbage and flounder.
Our reading of the menu lists: patty, chip, pickle.
Hickory, ropewalk wings and rub come up more here than elsewhere on our list.
In the family
Where it sits in the ingredient lexicon.
One entry is all the menus we read give this. All sauce
Where on the island
The 7 kitchens above, by district. Counted off the menus we read, in order up the island — not a ranking of neighbourhoods.
| District | Kitchens | Side of the island |
|---|---|---|
| Lower Midtown | 2 | inland |
| Midtown | 1 | inland |
| Uptown | 1 | bayside |
| North OC | 1 | inland |
| West Ocean City | 2 | harbor |