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Post by Clive on Feb 7, 2017 19:43:23 GMT
I travel to Europe a lot...most weeks at least once if not twice.
France and Belgium at the most problematic but it's all over.
How do you want your steak - welldone? At this point I'm treated as a leper.
I answer either Bleu or Saignant...then I become a friend and a human being.
I can't decide whether Brits still want their steaks cremated or whether the Europeans are having tough time adjusting to our not being s squeamish any more.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2017 19:52:30 GMT
How could anyone eat a well done Steak, yuk yuk, yukety yuk!
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Post by MartinT on Feb 7, 2017 19:55:56 GMT
How can people be so poncy about food? Have it any way you bloody like!
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Post by Clive on Feb 7, 2017 19:59:26 GMT
How can people be so poncy about food? Have it any way you bloody like! Bloody is the only way! Seriously though well done is just such a waste, you could be eating anything, what's the point in eating steak well done? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2017 20:02:58 GMT
Agreed, I hate food snobs. The worst restaurants I've eaten in have been the most expensive ones. Also the rudest and most pretentious staff. I may be a philistine but give me an honest Italian, Indian or a decent pub meal anytime.
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Post by MartinT on Feb 7, 2017 20:03:16 GMT
That's not the point, is it? Personally I like my steak rare but my partner's daughter likes her bacon burned to a crisp. Why should it matter to me how she likes it?
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Post by MartinT on Feb 7, 2017 20:06:46 GMT
Agreed, I hate food snobs. The worst restaurants I've eaten in have been the most expensive ones. Also the rudest and most pretentious staff. I may be a philistine but give me an honest Italian, Indian or a decent pub meal anytime. Yes! Often the simplest meals, well made, are the best. I've eaten at some ludicrously expensive places and no meal is worth that kind of money, ever. |
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Post by Clive on Feb 7, 2017 20:08:08 GMT
Bacon burnt to a crisp is fine in many nations. Well done steak is pretty much peculiar to the British. Choice is well and good but why waste a perfectly good steak and piece of cooking? Well done steak could be any old piece of meat. It's destroyed.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2017 20:08:26 GMT
How can people be so poncy about food? Have it any way you bloody like! Bloody is the only way! Seriously though well done is just such a waste, you could be eating anything, what's the point in eating steak well done? I like to chew on my meat, so well done is always best for me. It has its own taste which I enjoy. If I pay the same money as anyone else and get more pleasure from it well done, how is that a waste? Surely the waste would be to order it cooked in a way I don't enjoy and sit there struggling simply to satisfy the sensitivities of snobs who aren't paying for it or eating it. |
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Post by MartinT on Feb 7, 2017 20:09:48 GMT
Back to steaks: it's all in the quality of the meat. A nice piece of fillet, fried rare at home, is a lovely thing. Some pricy gristle at a top restaurant can be cooked any way you want, it's still going to be awful.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2017 20:11:47 GMT
Next people will be saying it's a waste to buy a decent hifi and listen to "popular" music rather than classical, Opera and Ballet.
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Post by Clive on Feb 7, 2017 20:15:35 GMT
Next people will be saying it's a waste to buy a decent hifi and listen to "popular" music rather than classical, Opera and Ballet. I'd say the hifi equivalent is listening to massively compressed music on a good hifi. I'm starting to get why the European's see us as philistines. Thanks guys. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2017 20:17:05 GMT
Thanks for the compliment. FWIW I don't give a flying fuck what Continentals or snobs think of me.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2017 20:21:45 GMT
AFAIC the downsid of being British is being told what you can think, what you can say, what you can eat etc etc etc but having to be tolerrant of everyone else's choices, tastes, thoughts, words and deeds, no matter how intolerant they are of the British.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2017 20:23:18 GMT
How could anyone eat a well done Steak, yuk yuk, yukety yuk! Sorry, Paul. Not having a go at you. Just stick a bit of rocket on the top and you'll love it  |
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Post by MartinT on Feb 7, 2017 20:25:43 GMT
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Post by Clive on Feb 7, 2017 20:45:02 GMT
Anyone for dry over-cooked Turkey? Sorry if I've offended some sensibilities....dry Turkey - I can see that some would disagree with it being over-cooked.
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Post by jandl100 on Feb 7, 2017 20:57:22 GMT
I prefer my steaks medium rare. But I'm fine with anyone who prefers it differently.
Why are some people so intolerant of the preferences of others? Seems daft to me.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2017 21:01:50 GMT
Anyone for dry over-cooked Turkey? Sorry if I've offended some sensibilities....dry Turkey - I can see that some would disagree with it being over-cooked. Sorry if I was a bit blunt and over-reacted. My frustration wasn't just over a bit of beef. To me, it was just one more example of people from other countries trying to tell British people what they are allowed to think or do; often in our own country. I am also a self-confessed Philistine, born on one of the country's most notorious council estates and "educated" at one its most infamous schools. I'm proud of my roots and also my nationality. For me, our culture is under attack from both inside and outside and I've recently decided to speak up as well as encourage others to do the same. As a Remainer at the time, I've now come round to Brexit largely because of this realisation. If we had a second referendum tomorrow, I'd vote "leave" too. |
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Post by Clive on Feb 7, 2017 21:11:13 GMT
To be fair to the dissenting European waiters and waitresses they aren't telling me what to like, they are just proud of their traditions. Tonight I was was asked if I wanted ketchup....no, but I did want mayo for the chips...this in their eyes was fine.
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