WHILE JULY FOURTH IS AMERICA’S FAVORITE GRILLING HOLIDAY, OTHER COUNTRIES CELEBRATE THEIR NATIONAL HOLIDAYS MUCH THE SAME WAY

Palatine, Ill., June 24, 2009—While the Fourth of July barbecue is as uniquely American as baseball and apple pie, the first International Weber GrillWatch Survey^™ shows that outdoor cooks around the globe celebrate their own national holidays in much the same way. 

Independence Day is the number one grilling holiday in the United States, according to the Survey, with 88 percent of American grill owners choosing to cook outside during this day. Interestingly, grillers from Canada and Australia also cite their countries’ national holidays as their top days for grilling—as well as those from France and Denmark.

The recent International Weber GrillWatch Survey, the only one of its kind, probes the grilling habits, knowledge, and preferences of 15,614 grill owners in 15 countries across five continents, representing a total of 390 million grillers in countries with populations totaling 2.1 billion people: