What makes a steak?

Recently I've gone to one Olde County Buffet.

This was a noteable day since we went to dinner at dinnertime, that is we paid the dinner price. Usually in the guentherclan we try to go right before the dinner food is put out at about 3:30 pm. Or myabe that's just my parent's excuse when they really want to eat dinner when the senior rush is.

Either way, we're there and its steak night. They're grilling the stuff up which is fine with me if I have to wait. Finally I bite into it (knives are for wimps) and get that whiff of hamburger. Then I detect onion chuncks and green stuff I presume is parsley. Sorry but that just isn't a steak. In fact I saw them take the same "steak" slop some cheap-o gravy on it and called it "Familystyle Meatloaf".

Later they cooked up some giant chuck steak and sliced it up. Now that's cheap grisly steak, but that's steak.

So what makes steak steak? Sure its all cow. Sure its all sliced up cow. But there's a point where its no longer steak. In fact, hamburger always seems to be older and smellier meat pulverized into fine strands them pressed back together and seared. But that isn't steak. Its a hamburger. Steak is a solid entity as such it has a variety of flavors and textures within it. Hamburger is a lump that has the same taste and texture.

Are steakburgers steak? Short answer... No. Long answer... Meat from the best parts ground up is still hamburger. Sure its better than the slop they serve at fast food chains, but it sure can't compair to a nicely grilled steak with a bone. Sure you can fool the elder people that frequent your establishment but you won't fool me and your fancy speak.

Ciao Corpsters