What is your ideal 4th of July cookout?

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Eating watermelon while floating in a pool.

Burgers and hot dogs on the grill. Chips, beans, lots of fruit. Anywhere near a water source works.

if you have a smoker; ribs with a side of macaroni and cheese, potato salad with fresh dill, smoked jalapeno poppers, smoked keilbasa, and a smoked smore for desert.

Keep it simple. Hot dogs and hamburgers, good snack spread, drinks, and blowing shit up. Usually at some point in the week we catch a fireworks show from our kayaks.

My favorite holiday and as a hardcore Liberal, I go hard on the patriotic stuff, because the right wingers don't deserve it. Take it back y'all.

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Burgers, hot dogs, baseball, and fireworks!

Lobsters and clams with potatoes and sweet corn.

But I’ll also be perfectly happy with burgers and red snappers on the grill, pot and Mac salad with a cold beer.

I don't really celebrate US Independence Day, but I guess grilled sausages would be nice, maybe with some chopped onions and peppers. Maybe some fries with mayonnaise too

Now I'm hungry, damnit

The neighbors not having one so I can enjoy my day off in peace and quiet

Grilled kielbasa!

Visiting a friend's cookout where there's a bounce house and sprinklers for the kids and I can just sit and relax.

Grilled meats and veggies on the beach, eat off a frisbee, drink some beer and stay til the fireworks at night!

No cookout. No nothing. I want to relax on my long weekend and I do that by staying home and chilling out because my GF is going to a convention.

Going into the mountains to get away from all the people with illegal fireworks trying to burn down our state and so myself and my dog can actually relax.

Use my camp stove to make some basic camp food. Doesn't need to be anything fancy. But something about, say sloppy Joe's or chilly dogs just taste better in the mountains. And either camp out or come back into town later at night once things have calmed down.

My backyard, grilled steak and chicken kabobs, pasta salad, veggie salad, chips, few different pies, homemade ice cream, and plenty of keg beer and pop/water/caprisuns for the kids and those who don’t drink alcohol.

One where someone else did all the cooking and cleaning, and all I have to do is show up and eat.

Pool.

Burgers. Dogs. Maybe something on the smoker (pulled pork/brisket/wings). Watermelon. Potato salad (with minimal mayo). Lemonade with a heavy pour of bourbon. Some sort of frozen treat.

That’ll do it.

Relaxing and eating some grilled burgers and chips

Potato. Salad.

Filipino bbq. Lechon. Pancit. Lumpia. Halo halo. Karaoke. Swimming. My uncles playing pranks on each other and smoking cigarettes. My grandpa playing chess with my son. My mom and aunts doting over the babies. My dad trying to convince my husband that a little more char wont hurt anyone (he likes it BURNT).

...I miss my family

Staycation & McDonalds. Im 2 exhausted 2 host something & then clean up after, or cook up a side dish that nobody touches @ the BBQ

Back porch, sunny but mild weather, no guests, the lady and I, charcoal grill, 2 T-bones with 2 lobster tails and drinks, early to bed around 9 - 10.

AND I'LL NOT APOLOGIZE FOR IT! 🫠

Vegan brats and burgers! With watermelon and cantaloupe 🇺🇸

I like really burned hotdogs, a good potato salad, and some fruit pizza 😋

Burgers, ribeye, white claws and cocktails on my building’s roof. Preceded by a nice drip in the pool with drinks ahead of time!

Burgs, dogs, some salads and some hardboiled eggs. Some soda and some beer.

Family

Beer

BBQ ribs, corn bread, and macaroni salad (or mac and cheese). Wash it down with some cold beer.

Cooking and eating happens in the backyard. Napping occurs on the living room couch when everyone goes back inside because that afternoon sun really speeds up food coma.

Burgers, dogs, Chinese red sausages, potato salad, Mac salad.

Beer

Pool

Fireworks

Burgers with Doritos

Burgers, dogs, steak on the grill(charcoal). Mac & Potato salad. Tons of booze and rock/metal music blasting in the background as I look past my back deck into the forest that becomes the state park bordering my property.

Burgers, dogs, beer, friends, corn hole, fireworks.

Hot dogs and ribs on a grill, cherry and apple pie (although I'm making bourbon pecan, not apple, this year, to share with friends - plus a cherry pie and rack of ribs), good coleslaw, and iced tea of some variety (I'd prefer a hard tea because I don't like normal southern sweet tea, way too sweet, but put some alcohol in tea and now you're talking....)

I've never seen burgers as 4th of July food, hotdogs and ribs are my preferred meats for this occasion.

Hot dog and a coke

Not a millennial but trying to find posts of people's spreads for the 4th!

(Anything on the grill, hot dogs hamburgers, chicken, corn, vegetable kabobs...anything grilled)

Middle of no where grilling some hot dogs and burgers. Side of Potato salad and a Dr Pepper.

Lots of guns and ammo shooting at used cans and bottles. Don’t need fireworks.

Murica’

Veggie burgers grilled over burning American flags, with an avocado and walnut salad on the side.

Well, I find it very ironic that while we are about to celebrate our independence from the monarchy the same week the Supreme Court gave our president the power of a King.

Tell me what exactly what we are celebrating tomorrow?