Are steaks still a celebratory family meal or is that more of a baby boomer era thing?

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Alberta - beef country. I remember times where steak was cheaper than chicken. I loooove steak and would eat it often. It didnt feel "celebratory" but didn't feel "average every day" either.

Going out to celebrate we'd always choose a steak restaurant, mostly because everyone was always happy with meat and potatoes. Not because it was super special or fancy.

I grew up in Alberta, too. Steak was a treat in the summer. Now, we order a side of beef every spring. Steak is what we have when I can't think of anything else. It's so easy on the grill or smoker.

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Anonymous wrote:I love steak but there's no ceremony when our family eats it, including nicer cuts. I don't think it registers what-so-ever with our kids when we eat expensive steaks at home or at a nice restaurant. It's just another meal. I feel like when we were growing up steaks for the family was pretty special and dads felt good about providing their family a nice steak dinner. We were middle to upper middle class.

It was ceremonial growing up - steaks were expensive and rare (ha - pun intended). Now it's not a special occasion. Not sure of our class ($200,000 HHI). We have steaks weekly.

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I know of people that did this, but I saw it more as a lower middle class thing. My family never did it. We celebrated with French restaurant style.
Knowing what we know now about dangers of eating red meat, I’d be insulted if someone suggested a steak dinner to celebrate something in my family.
We celebrate by going to an Indian restaurant now.

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Wow some touchy steak fans on this thread.

I am a PP that you would probably consider a "touchy steak fan." I don't care one way or the other about steak, it's the condescension of the non-steak people that get me, as they do on any other topic as well.

+1

People here are really impressed with themselves.

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you know dcum likes to keep with the times, American steak is out and ethnic is in
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Anonymous wrote:you know dcum likes to keep with the times, American steak is out and ethnic is in

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Anonymous wrote:Steak is a treat because it’s expensive. Chicken, egg, hamburger, etc for day to day. I like to get it from nice places like a local butcher and it’s even pricier there.

I make over $500k but we don’t throw away our money on a fancy meal every night so it’s an occasional treat - maybe once a month?

I don’t get the bizarre poster that judges people for celebrating with steak instead of ramen. Such a tedious attitude to judge people for having slightly different preferences than you. Celebrate with what you like. I enjoy both, just went to ramen last weekend. I’m sure I’ll have a steak soon too.

I think you missed their point.

Hi, ramen poster. No, I understood it, it was just framed in an unnecessarily haughty and frankly irritating sort of way.

Agreed! (New poster).

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Boomer. Grew up MC with UMC pretensions. Now UMC or UC by wealth.
Going out to a steakhouse was celebratory growing up and when I was making business trips.
DH likes prime rib better so we try to find places that still offer that.
At home I do small rib racks or we get chateaubriande meat from someplace in the Midwest and freeze them. I still have one left he wants me to cook for my birthday, lol.

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We only do steaks for special occasion really mostly because I feel a little guilty eating it. My teen son definitely views it as a special thing and when we are on vacation, he eats a ton of it. When we were in Rome, he basically alternated between steak and lasagna.

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Anonymous wrote:I know of people that did this, but I saw it more as a lower middle class thing. My family never did it. We celebrated with French restaurant style.
Knowing what we know now about dangers of eating red meat, I’d be insulted if someone suggested a steak dinner to celebrate something in my family.
We celebrate by going to an Indian restaurant now.

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Steak is an ingredient for a dish. It should not be an entree.

A large piece of meat is dog food, not an entree.

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In our house, it's not "celebratory" but it's also not an everyday meal. It's like a Sunday dinner level nice, same as a roast.

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If you’re throwing a backyard gathering, you have to be rich to serve dozens of guests expensive cuts of grilled beef. Hotdogs and burgers cost nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:Steak is an ingredient for a dish. It should not be an entree.

A large piece of meat is dog food, not an entree.

Woof.

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I put fried chicken and steak into the same category.