Get over yourself!

[Marxfan]

The grocery store where I used to work used to have charity cookouts a few times a year to benefit the March of Dimes. Hamburgers, hot dogs, it was a nice treat for the customers and for a good cause. All should be cool...

...But it wasn't. Whoever was cooking was told to cook the burgers well done for fear of food poisoning. Sounds perfectly reasonable, doesn't it? Well, this one crotchety customer didn't think so. She comes up to us and demands,

SC: I want a burger, and I don't want it well done! I want it BLOODY! I hate well-done burgers, I want my burger BLOODY!! You hear me? BLOODY!*

I didn't have to do it (I was just in charge of money), but the guy at the grill didn't know what to make of this. I think he just followed SC's request just to make her leave (by the way, she was still ranting about how she wanted her burger BLOODY!). She pissed me off for two reasons:

1) This cookout is for charity. We don't have to do it, and there's more than one way to raise money for charity.

2) We have to make our burgers well-done! If you don't like it, leave us alone and go to Fuddruckers!

Some people need to get the fuck over themselves and realize they're not that special!












*It happened a long time ago, so I embellished this part a bit, but it's basically what she said.

[BookstoreEscapee]

That's disgusting! I got a burger at a restaurant once and they made them really thick...the outside inch or so was well done but then I got to the middle and it bright red! Put me off burgers for quite a while...(and this was before they started making rules and disclaimers about undercooked meats)

My dad used to know a guy who liked his steak "blue"* - he'd say, just run the cow by the table and I'll take a bite...

*apparently, "blue" entails putting the steak on the grill for basically a few seconds, flip it over, a few more seconds, and done...:shudder:

[Marxfan]

That's disgusting! I got a burger at a restaurant once and they made them really thick...the outside inch or so was well done but then I got to the middle and it bright red! Put me off burgers for quite a while...(and this was before they started making rules and disclaimers about undercooked meats)

My dad used to know a guy who liked his steak "blue"* - he'd say, just run the cow by the table and I'll take a bite...

*apparently, "blue" entails putting the steak on the grill for basically a few seconds, flip it over, a few more seconds, and done...:shudder:

I don't always like my meat well done, but I'm talking pink on the inside, that's all. I hate having my steak ooze blood every time I slice it. I don't want to take a bite of my burger and have it moo in protest.

But this horrible slag just wouldn't let up. Go to Outback, you bitch.

[AFpheonix]

I prefer steaks to be pink to red, prime rib to be just warm....mmmm.....
Hamburger? No pink. I want all the critters killed.

[LonelyStr8manInSF]

Myself and my entire family love our steaks extremely rare - I tend to get it the most cooked, and I order "very rare." My dad likes his steak blue, and yes, that means it should still be almost cold on the inside.

I'm hungry now.

[Fawn]

*gags*

Always ALWAYS cooked all the way through. So many things can go wrong there. No pink. icky.. cooked.. good!

[powerboy]

I like mine Medium rare

[Lil Bunny]

My friends always give me crap because I eat my meat medium well to well done. Heck, I pretty much char the crap out of my burgers. I guess here in the midwest I'm an outsider. It's not that I don't want to try them the other way, really I have tried!!

It's the first taste of the juices/blood that just makes my mouth and teeth hurt so freeken bad!!! I don't get it but eh, what do you do. So yeah when they have to do em well done, I'm so happy!!

[justZu]

Mmmmm... I'm a rare meat kinda girl. Just show my steak a picture of fire and put it on my plate. However, I know if I want a rare burger, it ain't gonna happen unless I am at home, doing the cooking. So I take whatever is the rarest allowed(usually medium) or I order something else.
I can't stand it when people insist on something that is against the rules. I wonder how that woman would feel if you went to her workplace and demanded something she was not allowed to give you? Maybe she would learn a lesson...then again, probably not.

[XCashier]

My friends always give me crap because I eat my meat medium well to well done.

Medium well for me, please. Just a hint of pink in the middle. Cooked enough to be safe, but no hockey pucks on my plate!

Back OT, why is it when you perform a service for charity, customers bring on the specialty demands?! Either screaming for a "bloody" burger, or demanding an extremely fancy gift wrapping. It's for charity, folks, these are volunteers, doing this out of the kindness of their hearts. Stop barking orders at them!

[GyroKat]

My favourite restaurant is all about the meat. Basically, you order a steak in whatever size and type you want, and then you can get free refills of gravy and potatoes. There's several different types of gravy potatoes as well, but you can only get refills of the kind you choose when ordering, if you wish to get several different kinds you need to pay extra. You can also order the self-serve salad bar, but I must admit, I go there for the meat. I can eat salad at home if I want.

You can get your steak well done, medium or rare, but they'll take special requests as well. I always tell them to bring it to me as soon as it stops protesting, which usually makes the waiter chuckle.

Hamburgers though, always well done. Because of the grinding/mincing, there's a LOT of surfaces for the bacteria to cling on to, so I prefer them very well cooked. On a normal steak, the entire surface is usually subjected to fire or a lot of heat, so that's fine.

[Banrion]

The appropriate doneness on meat really should depend on the cut.

Ground Beef: Medium - Medium well. Brown all the way through, but not dry and charred.

Prime rib: Extra super Rare: 1/4 - 1/2 inch of brown crispy on the outside, warm & red the rest of the way through.

Filet Mignon: Blue - Takes no more than 60 sec to sear the outside. Cool and pink in the center.

Skirt Steak: Medium well - well - Slow cooked and well done for maximum tenderness.

[Becks]

I prefer my hamburgers to be well done. I get grossed out otherwise.

[dalejrfan71]

I prefer to have my steaks & hamburgers well done. It turns me off seeing pink in the middle of my steak.

[Andara Bledin]

I'm not a big beef eater. I only really eat hamburgers, and I like those medium well.

Speaking of undercooked meat, one of the guys that used to work here managed to pick up a tapeworm from something he got at some hole in the wall Mexican food place he liked to go to. That wouldn't be so bad except that it managed to die while it was in his brain.

It can't be removed because of where it is, and now he has to take medication probably for the rest of his life to not suffer siezures. The siezures are what made the doctors find the tapeworm.

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