Chicken or Steak?

[BB73]

The best steak I ever had was in a little dive in Sioux City, Iowa. It was a few blocks down the street from the slaughterhouse. They had a pick-up truck that hauled sides of beef from the slaughterhouse to the restuarant. I had a wonderful 16-oz top sirloin for $7.50 (almost 20 years ago, but that was still very inexpensive).

I really believe that beef was alive earlier that same day, Damn, I'm actually salivating as I think about that steak!

On the down side, though, if the wind was blowing the wrong way it was nasty to be outside anywhere within a couple miles of that place.

 

[Dryden]

The best steak I ever had was in a little dive in Sioux City, Iowa. It was a few blocks down the street from the slaughterhouse. They had a pick-up truck that hauled sides of beef from the slaughterhouse to the restuarant. I had a wonderful 16-oz top sirloin for $7.50 (almost 20 years ago, but that was still very inexpensive).

Stop ... please stop.

We don't have an Outback Steakhouse in Lancaster ... and you're all making me crave an Outback Special w/ Baked Potato and Ceaser Salad ... not to mention an oil can of Fosters.

 

[NorthShoreBuck]

Venison, mudbugs and alligator.

 

[ScarletArrow]

Venison, mudbugs and alligator.

Nothing better than venison tenderloin!

 

[Thump]

You should probably explain to your wife that generations of water pollution have lead to an increase in mercury and PCBs in fish, particularly sport fish, that have destroyed any nutritional value the fish once had for our grandparents' generation and many of the contaminants carried in fish are known to cause severe neurological disorders.

Sport fish are particularly bad. The EPA suggests, for example, that pregnant women and children eat no more than one of the following per month (that means one of anything on this list):

canned tuna
mahi mahi
blue mussels
eastern oyster
cod
pollock
salmon (all great lakes varieties)
blue crab (gulf of mexico)
channel catfish (wild)
lake whitefish

All of the following are under review by the EPA:

walleye, northern pike, largemouth bass, sea bass, atlantic cod, black grouper, orange roughy, bluefish, pacific cod, red grouper, sand perch, bonito, pollock, red snapper, white perch, porgy, yellowtail, rockfish, dover sole, halibut, lake trout, flounder.

The following are the fish species that are least contaminated with methylmercury (note: the emphasis is on 'least contaminated' not 'not contaminated').

farmed trout
farmed catfish
shrimp
fish sticks
flounder (summer)
salmon (wild pacific)
croaker
blue crab (mid atlantic)
haddock

I'll have the steak please ...

Thank god there is no mention of Pink Snapper on that list.

Stop ... please stop.

We don't have an Outback Steakhouse in Lancaster ... and you're all making me crave an Outback Special w/ Baked Potato and Ceaser Salad ... not to mention an oil can of Fosters.

I know.

The Lone Star just doesn't get it done for me.