7 Things Bound To Happen At Every Maltese Summer BBQ
It’s officially BBQ season!
And that means plastic white chairs, an excess of burger buns, and dads gathering at the grilling station.
Maltese BBQ nights are like no others, some of the funniest and deepest conversations happen during these nights.
As everyone is planning their first or next bbq, here are seven things that are bound to happen at every Maltese summer BBQ:
1. No one will turn up on time
Everyone is either too early or too late. At this point, anyone who has ever hosted a bbq knows not to start cooking the food before a sufficient amount of people have arrived, unless you want to serve charred sausages.
2. The classic white plastic chairs come out
Time to dust those white plastic chairs that have been piled up onto each other in a corner somewhere. How does every Maltese household own these chairs? A phenomenon I will never understand.
3. All the dads have gathered around the bbq
Like moths to a flame. You will find every dad in their natural habitat – somewhere around the grill.
4. Someone’s nanna will bring out some classic Maltese dessert like imqaret or qagħaq tal-għasel.
Amongst the fruit, dips, meat, chips, and kebabs, you will always find something purely Maltese that someone’s nanna brought with them, as a gift to the host. You just have to look hard enough, maybe they left it in the kitchen, somewhere.
5. A vegetarian shows up
This is only bad when you’re not advised from before. Now, you have to figure out how you’re going to feed them without just giving them chips and nanna’s imqaret.
6. Some drunk uncle starts talking about politics starting debates
And by debates, I mean fights.
7. Everyone stays a tad too late
You might have work in the morning, or just don’t want to get to bed at 3am. How do you tell people to piss off without saying the words “piss off”? We all know Maltese people never shut up, and when they’re in the groove, they won’t move.
What else can we expect to see all summer long?
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