[MrChip72]

I'm considering adding a barbeque to my back patio. Not inside the lanai. I've heard people saying that you will get snakes in your barbeque in Florida all the time. Is this true at all?

[Chi-Town]

I haven't had any, but I heard they taste just like chicken.

[Nucky]

There was a bar called Lily Langtrees a long time ago that served Rattlesnake, which tasted exactly like chicken. Yuck. It was my bachelor party so I had to try it. Double Yuck. Should have married The Rattlesnake, at least I knew it was a snake.

[Topspinmo]

Might get little black racer which is harmless. I got one in my neighborhood that makes his rounds about ever two weeks in my yard trying to catch lizards.

[thevillages2013]

Originally Posted by MrChip72

I'm considering adding a barbeque to my back patio. Not inside the lanai. I've heard people saying that you will get snakes in your barbeque in Florida all the time. Is this true at all?

I would use a grill if I were you

[Rapscallion St Croix]

Wasps built nests in my infrequently used grill.

[MrFlorida]

Not in my grill, but I did have one in my garage once... corn snake, harmless.

[collie1228]

I had a black racer in my yard who used to hide under the propane tank of my grill. He was only about 1.5 feet long and could curl up and disappear in the bottom of the tank. He's no longer with us.

[ElDiabloJoe]

Originally Posted by thevillages2013

I would use a grill if I were you

I see what you did there, you made fun of the guy who is probably from the west coast.

Clearly, the poster is not from the midwest or the northeast. In the west, specifically California, BBQ is both a noun and a verb. BBQ is the item you cook upon (which many others call a grill), and BBQ-ing is also what you are doing when you cook on a BBQ, regardless of whether BBQ sauce is involved.

Kinda like all soft drinks are cokes; "You want a coke? Great, what kind? Oh, a Sprite, OK."

They also nominize freeways. Just like Floridians call the Turnpike, THE Turnpike,
Californians will call it the 5 freeway, or the 110 freeway, or the 405 freeway. The freeways are iconic members of the landscape, just like a building might be THE Empire State Building.

What makes it harder for a non-native to understand is freeways are also given names. Not just one, but two. One for each direction (approximate terminus) of said freeway. The 10 is the Santa Monica Fwy AND the San Bernardino Fwy. The 110 is both the Harbor Fwy AND the Pasadena Fwy. The 5 is the Santa Ana Fwy AND the Golden State Fwy. You describe it to others based on the direction you were traveling. You don't need to say you were going north on the 110 when you can say you took the Pasadena Fwy to the Ave 52 exit. The 110, by the way, was the first freeway opened in the nation. It is sometimes called (Especially in the northern terminus / Pasadena area) the Arroyo Seco Pkwy, in a nod to its initial name prior to being a freeway.

While the 10 does not terminate in San Berdoo but in Jacksonville, FL., it is still called the San Bernardino Fwy because when it opened, most of the great basin's civilization ended in the Inland Empire, of which San Bernardino is a large part. Beyond that, was just desert until you reached Palm Springs, hours of dry expanse past San Bernardino.

Next we can talk about SigAlerts if anyone is interested. What, why am I hearing crickets?

[Mortal1]

Not strange at all that not one post answered the initial question. Never heard of a snake getting into an outdoor grill, but being wild creatures they might seek refuge there...not likely the way most outdoor grills are made.

[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by Chi-Town

I haven't had any, but I heard they taste just like chicken.

Nope.

Chicken tastes like snake.

[Michael G.]

I can't say I'm bothered by snakes, but I had rats chew the back of my barbecue grill cover to shreds.
Rats smell the grease affiliated fool cooked on the grill.

Yes, I set a trap and got 2 rats in a week.

[vintageogauge]

Snakes eat rodents. If you keep your BBQ clean and leave a small bowl of pure ammonia inside you will have neither one. Ammonia is good to repel anything with lungs, I have been using it for over 50 years with great success and it's cheap.

[Taltarzac725]

Lots of varieties of lizards in the grill over the past 15 years here in the Villages but no snakes.

[CPD050]

I’m from the Midwest and we always called it a BBQ.