Horror Haiku Club Prompt
July 25 - Barbecue
The word barbecoa was first used in Spain in 1526 to describe a method of cooking meat practiced by the Taino people in the Caribbean.
Your prompt is BARBECUE.
You are invited
To throw meat on a hot grate
Origin, unknown
Not grilling meat for long enough could result in dangerous bacterial infection. But cook your meat for too long and you create the carcinogens heterocyclic aromatic amines.
Not autobiographical, just in case you wanted to try to cancel me...
<<Sister pissed me off.
Put a dress on GI Joe.
Revenge: Barbie-cue!<<
So there are clearly risks with both rare and well done meat. My preference for medium makes sense now.