Tell us how you like your steak!

[Neto]

Seriously, 40 percent like it well or med well?
An abomination before God and man.

I didn't look up the reference, but there IS an OT text admonishing people not to eat raw meat. (So I think the 'abomination before God' refers to the other end of the spectrum.)

Wife: thankfully, I am a gentile, because I like it with all the fat still on it. I would go for medium rather than medium rare, though, and I totally go for the steak sauce even for the best tasting steaks.
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Yes, I realize there is ALSO a prohibition in the OT for eating fat, at least in many circumstances. AND, I like the fat as well, but I like it hot and crispy.

Growing up, I hated the fat. In fact I was probably in my upper thirties or forties before I started liking it. I found out later that my Mom would cut off as much of the fat as she dared (so that Dad wouldn't know), but Dad would make us eat whatever was on our plate, including the chicken skin and the fat on whatever the meat was. You can only sneakily just happen to cut off so much fat from the piece of meat you are taking.

Then I went out with a bunch of the Banawa men once, on a 3 hour walk (one way) to go to help bring back meat from a tapir that one of the men had shot, and had roasted right beside the trail, near where he had gotten it. (A full-grown tapir is about the size of a full-grown sow, so no one man can carry it all back that far, even after it is roasted. So, he stayed there, waiting for someone to come along the trail, to take the message back to the village to come and get it.) Tapirs have a layer of fat just under the hide about an inch thick, and when we arrived there he roasted some chunks of it for us - energy food. That was the first time I willingly ate fat, and I have liked it ever since. But it DOES need to be crispy on the outside, and nice & hot on the inside. (I still don't go for cold fat.)

[Robert]

I cooked a steak on the grill tonight for the wife. I burned the grill.

[barnhart]

Neto, is Tapir similar to pork?

[steve-in-kville]

Steve says the way to make beef heart is to jump on it. If you don't have the energy maybe you'd have a couple children that could do that for you?

I intentionally leave stuff in there just to see who will be first to point it out. It's either you or OJ, typically.

I'll bet you love to set up easter egg hunts

I'll try anything once. Twice if I'm paid

[Neto]

Neto, is Tapir similar to pork?

Tapir is actually in the same general class (farther up) as are horses and hippopotamuses (Hipopotomii?). They have a mane, and the same sort of "flabbly lips" like horses. Tastes like beef, if I had to compare it to something.

[MaxPC]

Neto, is Tapir similar to pork?

Tapir is actually in the same general class (farther up) as are horses and hippopotamuses (Hipopotomii?). They have a mane, and the same sort of "flabbly lips" like horses. Tastes like beef, if I had to compare it to something.

Is it tender or tough?

[Neto]

Neto, is Tapir similar to pork?

Tapir is actually in the same general class (farther up) as are horses and hippopotamuses (Hipopotomii?). They have a mane, and the same sort of "flabbly lips" like horses. Tastes like beef, if I had to compare it to something.

Is it tender or tough?

Like any meat, the younger it is, the better. It might also help to let it "age" a bit first, too.... (Did I really say that?)

[MaxPC]

Tapir is actually in the same general class (farther up) as are horses and hippopotamuses (Hipopotomii?). They have a mane, and the same sort of "flabbly lips" like horses. Tastes like beef, if I had to compare it to something.

Is it tender or tough?

Like any meat, the younger it is, the better. It might also help to let it "age" a bit first, too.... (Did I really say that?)

In that case I would be very tender indeed.

[Valerie]

For those who like steak fat (I identify) if MN Emory serves me doctors blamed President Reagan particular cancer (colon)on his eating steak fat.

[Neto]

Is it tender or tough?

Like any meat, the younger it is, the better. It might also help to let it "age" a bit first, too.... (Did I really say that?)

In that case I would be very tender indeed.

Neither I, nor the Banawa, are cannibals.

Reminds me of a story. Some background first. The Indian Agency in Brazil has one section called (when translated) "Contact Front". This is the department that manages un-contacted tribes, mostly just preventing anyone else from getting into the areas where these tribes are believed to be. This section has attracted persons of the political radical left, which in Brazil means Marxists. A Frete de Contato team came into our village once while we were there. They stayed on the other side of the airstrip, and made no effort to come over to meet me, so I went over there. I could tell that the team leader didn't want to talk to me, but I was friendly and cordial, so he was sort of forced to talk a bit.

The story, however, deals with what the Banawa told me later. A man from a related tribe (around 4 to 10 days dugout days travel away, depending on the time of year) was there in the area, at the mouth of the Banawa River. This guy is known for begging for things, and he was asking this Indian Agent for some shorts. He told him, "You shouldn't be wearing clothes at all - you should go back to your old ways." (Actually, these tribes didn't go completely naked, but these Frete de Contato people aren't anthropologists to start with, and just make their own assumptions. So someone said that they should have asked him where his mule is, because when outsiders first came into the indigenous areas, back in the rubber boom days, they always traveled with a pack mule.)

But if the Banawa ever were cannibals, they either didn't know it, or didn't want to admit it. (When describing a related tribe that they had wiped out because of cannibalism, they actually seemed confused as to whether that tribe was human or not, because the fact that they had language indicated that they were, while the fact that they ate people classified them as animals.) Anyway, I said that they should take a pinch of the flesh on the outsider's side between their fingers, and when he asked them what they were doing, to say, "Well, we used to eat people, and we were just checking to see how much fat you have." (That's the way they "grade" the quality of a game animal - the more fat there is, the more healthy it is, and the better the meat.) So we all had a good laugh on that one, thinking about how he would respond to the unspoken suggestion.