On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:25 -0400, "Doug Franklin" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2010-03-23 12:24, John Francis wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 08:34:00AM -0400, Doug Franklin wrote: > >> On 2010-03-23 8:04, William Robb wrote: > >> > >>>> I've stopped ordering steak when I go to a restaurant. I'm a philistine > >>>> who like steak well done (ie. not a pink morsel anywhere). I think > >>>> that's a task beyond the ability of most chefs. > >>>> > >>> Any chef worth of the title would consider that a lack of taste on the > >>> part of the diner. > >> > >> F*** the chef, I'm paying for the meal, not a snotty attitude. > > > > Then go to a diner. > > > > When you go to a "fine dining" establishment you are paying for the > > expertise of the chef. Telling him how to do his job is a dumb idea. > > We'll just have to disagree on this one. If I'm footing the bill, it > should be cooked the way I want it, if I specify. Asking for a steak > with no pink and receiving a mooing cow, on my dime, is not on.
Yes! In any restaurant I've been to the waiter asks how you'd like your steak cooked. If I say 'well done', I bloody well mean it! (er, I mean it un-bloodied, actually) Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
