A bull roast is a meal where an entire bull

Bull

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 is roasted over an open pit barbecue

Pit barbecue

A pit barbecue is a method and constructed item for barbecue cooking meat and root vegetables buried below the surface of the earth. Indigenous peoples around the world used earth ovens for tens of thousands of years. In modern times the term and activity is often associated with the Eastern...

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

Pig roast

A pig roast or hog roast is an event or gathering which involves the barbecuing of a whole hog...

. The meat gathered from a bull roast is sometimes called pit beef.

While not technically exclusive to anyone one particular area, bull roasts are a common social function in the Chesapeake Bay

Chesapeake Bay

The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States. It lies off the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by Maryland and Virginia. The Chesapeake Bay's drainage basin covers in the District of Columbia and parts of six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West...

 region, especially Southern Maryland

Southern Maryland

Southern Maryland in popular usage is composed of the state's southernmost counties on the "Western Shore" of the Chesapeake Bay. This region includes all of Calvert, Charles and St. Mary's counties and sometimes the southern portions of Anne Arundel and Prince George's counties.- History...

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