Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Ireland suggestions
From: Rolfe Tessem <rolfe@ldp.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 09:49:00 -0400
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Marc James Small wrote:
> At 09:10 PM 7/8/03 -0600, Tim Atherton wrote:
> 
>>But heaven forbid that other
>>parts of the world would fail to follow and comprehend US custom... :-)
> 
> 
> 
> Tim
> 
> It isn't so much that as that when I patiently explained that "rare" meant
> to slap a chunk off meat off the cow while it ran through the kitchen and
> that the result should be bloody and red on the inside, I still got
> medium-well to well-done meat, much toughter than the quality of the meat
> should have permitted.  (Excessive cooking toughens meat.)  I recognize
> that USians can be silly in their demands that "these furriners" do
> everything their way -- but, for God's sake, I even explained it in the
> Gaelic at one locale.  I THOUGHT I had obtained perfect comprehension,
> until I got the same tired and over-cooked meat I had gotten previously.  

Marc,

I suspect this is because of the Mad Cow Disease scare. I believe that 
fully cooked beef eliminates all risk and the restaurants are probably 
erring on the side of caution.

Rolfe

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