Meat can be roasted, grilled, or fried . In Brazil and Argentina, meat is usually grilled over a charcoal fire. Another word used for this kind of cooking is barbecue,which comes from the west Indian word barbacoa. Meat comes from the West is barbecue, which ndi be served with boiled baked, or fried potatoes. In fact potatoes were discovered by the Spanish in Peru in the 1500s and taken back to Europe.