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He is wearing his sisters fur vest, our family tartan for a sash, his brother's pirate belt because we are descended from William Dampier, A Pirate of Exquisite Mind and his lego sword because I lived in Denmark for a couple of years.
Barbecue, as a noun, first entered the English language from a really interesting guy named William Dampier. First guy to go around the world three times, naturalist, has bits of Australia named after him, responsible for Captain Bligh sailing out to get his breadfruit with Fletcher Christian, mentioned by name in Gulliver's Travels, and sparked the interest in Darwin to get on a boat. He's also responsible for getting other words like chopsticks, avocado, and cashew getting into the Oxford English Dictionary (and therefore the English language).
He got the noun "barbecue" from the Spanish "barbacoa". He used the word barbecue to describe a wooden frame set over a lower, smoldering fire. Food was hung from this and smoked. Basically, it made dried, smoked meat and fish. It made BBQ. The whole hog thing came some years later.
As far as "proper BBQ", as long as it's cooked indirectly over a low fire with wood smoke, it's BBQ. Could be chicken, could be fish, could be the entire head of some mammal.
Dampier was a quite a interesting fellow. If you're familiar with Patrick O'Brian's books, the Maturin character was said to be partially inspired by Dampier's exploits. There's a really great book about him called A Pirate of Exquisite Mind that has a pretty good history of all the crazy things he did. It's worth a read if that genre is your thing.
The life of William Dampier would be a real epic. Here's hoping for that!
For those who don't know him;
> William Dampier (baptised 5 September 1651; died March 1715) was the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. He has also been described as Australia's first natural historian, as well as one of the most important British explorers of the period between Sir Walter Raleigh and James Cook.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dampier
There's also a really good book called "A Pirate of Exquisite Mind"; https://www.amazon.com/Pirate-Exquisite-Mind-Naturalist-Buccaneer/dp/0802714250?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0