isabelknight:

fierceawakening:

isaacsapphire:

fierceawakening:

a-rinna:

fierceawakening:

alayne-stonecoldfox:

This has always baffled me. I… guess I never absorbed the idea that my food preferences are inherently funny?

I mean, I don’t mind being laughed at all, I like weird food and dislike normal food all the time, but… can someone explain the joke?

The joke is that it’s popular opinion that steak tastes best when it’s medium rare or rare and that if you like it well-done then you’re ‘ruining’ the meat and have bad taste in food.

It’s basically just food snobbery tbh. Most people just joke about it and mean nothing by it but there are plenty of people who get genuinely really mad and offended if you like well-done steak.

The funny thing about it to me is when I was a kid and had sensory issues with food to the point of being super picky, I ordered everything well done and no one made fun of me. Now that I trained myself to tolerate medium well (because of that whole “too much charring is a carcinogen” thing) I see people mock it all the time.

And I’m just sort of “??? why were you not bullying wee Fiercelet ???”

I mean, I’m glad of it, wee Fiercelet would have taken it to heart and I’ll just eat everything the rare meat likers don’t want. 😉 but I’m still kind of “…where did this come from”

It’s a common blue collar food snobbery thing. @sinesalvatorem this is context for that whole “wtf are Americans upset about people saying that Trump likes his steak well done???” Thing from a while back.

Yeah, I figured Trump’s preferences might have something to do with it, but otherwise… I mean, I get that the outside of something is going to be more done than the middle. But… why would you want your meat done on the outside and a completely different texture in the middle? It’s like you forgot about it!

I like rare/medium-rare steak. The sear on the outside helps hold in moisture, allows the whole piece of meat to get warm/hot without fully cooking the inside (making for a nice texture/temperature), and kills any e. coli that may have contaminated the surface*, so it’s safer to eat than just all raw. IDK about other people, but for me the outside texture is a neccesary evil, not the best texture of the whole steak, so, uh, that’s why the inconsistent texture.

*I could be misremembering, but where with chicken, salmonella can be in any part of the tissue, with beef the harmful bacteria is in the digestive tract and so the concern is with surface contamination of cuts of meat during the butchery process. Relatedly, eating rare hamburgers is living dangerously in a way eating rare steak is not.