We eat steak only occasionally due to trying to limit red meat overall vs. when I was growing up and we had filet at least weekly. There’s never been any correlation to it being a special event. We have beef tenderloin every Christmas. We don’t cook a beef tender regularly because it’s way too much food for our family of four.

I don’t care if it’s unsophisticated. I’ll take a classic steakhouse meal any day. Oysters on the half shell, wedge salad, ribeye or NY strip, creamed spinach, potato gratin, and sautéed mushrooms. Key lime pie for dessert. ‘Merica, fck yeah!

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Anonymous wrote:A big piece of meat is a little gross. We prefer more sophisticated dishes. Fresh vegetables, flavors, and combinations of ingredients.

Steak is a poor person’s idea of nice food.

Such an odd flex. Perhaps some of us go to places that serve great cuts of steak, with fresh vegetables, flavors, and combinations of ingredients...as a side dish (or on the plate with the big piece no not-gross meat). Enjoyed recent special/celebratory meals at Fiola Mare and CUT.

Right? Some seriously odd replies on this thread, so odd that I am wondering if Basement Bro has expanded his repertoire of ways to troll.

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I never grew up like this, OP. I spent my childhood in Europe in a middle class family. Just because something is expensive doesn't mean it's desirable and has to be feted. That's a very shallow point of view, don't you think? Are you sure you want to replicate that aspect of your childhood?

We celebrate with Japanese food that we don't make at home. Sushi or ramen!

DP but since you didn’t grow up in the US, you don’t have the same perspective. “Nice steak dinners” are a very American cultural experience.

DP. I grew up in both. When in Europe, a celebratory meal was often a really good Indonesian restaurant. In North America, it was often a steakhouse or grilling a good porterhouse or whatever.

Thinking back, I preferred that awesome fancy Indonesian restaurant.

My kids appreciate both kinds of experiences. But when given a choice, they always choose good Chinese over a steak for occasion dinners. If I'm grilling "steak," it's more likely to be a California style trip-tip or a marinated skirt steak.

I think the plain sirloin steak is more likely to be a boomer thing. Can appreciate it for the memories, but it's not a go to anymore.

Anonymous wrote:A big piece of meat is a little gross. We prefer more sophisticated dishes. Fresh vegetables, flavors, and combinations of ingredients.

Steak is a poor person’s idea of nice food.

Such an odd flex. Perhaps some of us go to places that serve great cuts of steak, with fresh vegetables, flavors, and combinations of ingredients...as a side dish (or on the plate with the big piece no not-gross meat). Enjoyed recent special/celebratory meals at Fiola Mare and CUT.

Good steak is expensive. We reserve it for Father’s Day and birthdays.

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I never grew up like this, OP. I spent my childhood in Europe in a middle class family. Just because something is expensive doesn't mean it's desirable and has to be feted. That's a very shallow point of view, don't you think? Are you sure you want to replicate that aspect of your childhood?

We celebrate with Japanese food that we don't make at home. Sushi or ramen!

NP. I really dislike people like you. Snob wrapped up in condescension and judgment. It's fine to celebrate with sushi but not steak, because steak is shallow.

Some of us didn't get to have steak all the time, so when our parent/s could afford it, it was special because it signified far more than just a piece of meat.

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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.

That's the new norm for non-Americans on food threads. Like Real Estate we now need to preface each thread with a location.

Yeah, the whole, “I’m European and sophisticated so I eat ramen” angle was ridiculous. There’s probably more ramen shops per capita in the USA than Europe, not that it matters.

There’s lots of good food to eat, from lots of different countries.

Steak is about equivalent to a hamburger to most people.

A big piece of meat is a little gross. We prefer more sophisticated dishes. Fresh vegetables, flavors, and combinations of ingredients.

Steak is a poor person’s idea of nice food.

Zoomer kids, especially girls, have been brainwashed to be anti meat or at least anti red meat. Steaks and heavy red wines is an old man thing. Successful yuppies prefer fish and crisp white wines, maybe more delicate reds wines.

Even with the availability of decent to-go sushi at Whole Foods, I feel like teens these days think of a good sushi dinner as more “special” than dinner at a good steak restaurant.

Mostly Boomer in terms of using it as a "celebratory" meal. Where I grew up, steak frites is a typical meal.

Anonymous wrote:In our case, we had it more or less weekly. My father liked steak. We were UMC and are probably UMC or UC (based on income) now, so it's not really a celebratory meal for us either. Celebratory is usually based on what someone requests at our house, and less on what the meal cost to make or buy.

Celebratory was maybe the wrong word to use. Good steaks for the entire family was perceived to be special is all.

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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.

That's the new norm for non-Americans on food threads. Like Real Estate we now need to preface each thread with a location.