A bull roast is a meal where beef, typically not an entire bull, is roasted over an open

pit barbecue Pit barbecue is a method and/or apparatus for barbecue cooking meat and root vegetables buried below ground. Indigenous peoples around the world used earth ovens for thousands of years. In modern times the term and activity is often associated wi ...

and then sliced up and served. It is similar in concept to a

pig roast A pig roast or hog roast is an event or gathering which involves the barbecuing of a whole pig. Pig roasts, under a variety of names, are a common traditional celebration event in many places including the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Cuba. ...

. The meat at a bull roast is sometimes pit beef and is often accompanied by oysters. While not technically exclusive to any one particular area, bull roasts are a common social function along the east coast of the United States, especially the

Chesapeake Bay The Chesapeake Bay ( ) is the largest estuary in the United States. The Bay is located in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region and is primarily separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Delmarva Peninsula (including the parts: the ...

region,

Southern Maryland Southern Maryland is a geographical, cultural and historic region in Maryland composed of the state's southernmost counties on the Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. According to the state of Maryland, the region includes all of Calvert, Cha ...

, and Virginia.

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Where There's Smoke There's BBQ

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