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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Ireland suggestions
From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net>
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 09:46:40 -0700
References: <000001c3460f$3ad09db0$6401a8c0@dorysrusp4>

Don

Does cooking beef well done destroy the prions?  I dunno.

Jerry

Don Dory wrote:

> I have had some success by specifying how I wanted a piece of meat
> cooked. For an emporium that uses a grill I request 10 seconds on one
> side and 10 seconds on the other then bring it out.  If the server
> indicates that the establishment doesn't cook that way then I choose
> another locale.
>
> With the mad cow scare in England I suspect that there may be license
> issues.  In other words, if the health inspector catches a piece of beef
> going out uncooked then you get closed down.
>
> Don
> dorysrus@mindspirng.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Tim
> Atherton
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 12:09 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Ireland suggestions
>
> > I would certainly think that expecting the Irish to know
> > rare from medium rare from well done would be a modest
> > proposal.
>
> Probably they do, but they may well not call it that - so why we should
> expect specific terminology - or in this case, more of a colloquialism,
> from
> one country to be used and understood in another is beyond me? Which was
> my
> point. If you drive your car into a Garage in Britain or Ireland (gas
> station) and asked for it to be filled up with gas, would you be
> surprised
> when they filled you tank with propane...? When in Rome.
>
> tim
>
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