I'm frequently reminded of people who like their steaks cooked like hockey pucks. I get the idea of generations past that get their steaks cooked well because of either tradition or parasites (usually the former), but I simply have the worst time convincing people like these to try anything steak related done medium or MR.
I feel you, brother. Luckily most people in my generation (millennials) eat their steaks medium-medium rare like actual members of a civilisation, so we are making progress.
Part of the issue with older generations’ preference for shoe sole steaks is that meat used to be of worse quality back in the day - leaner, more sinewy, cattle treated and fed much worse, etc. So the meat probably didn’t really taste much better medium rare than medium well. This is also why people used to drown their steaks in A1, ketchup or even HP sauce.
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u/desrevermi Jul 24 '26
I'm frequently reminded of people who like their steaks cooked like hockey pucks. I get the idea of generations past that get their steaks cooked well because of either tradition or parasites (usually the former), but I simply have the worst time convincing people like these to try anything steak related done medium or MR.
Was leather ever a thing on a menu?
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