>>
>I think you've been to France, Bonnie? You always have to allow 2 levels back of cookedness with them. To them medium is blue, rare is just take the horns off and wipe it's backside.>>
>>I can't remember if I've ordered filet mignon, or any kind of steak for that matter, in France. So, if I like it at least a little pink in the center, then how should I order it?
>>
>>~~Bonnie
>
>AT least medium but maybe bien cuit. They just HATE well done meat.
When my cousin from Devizes visited I took him to one of the best steakhouses I knew for a fillet. He explained to the waitress "cooked" meant the center was the same color as the outside. She kept looking at me, hoping I would explain to him the sinfulness of what he was suggesting. I don't even like fillets too warm. It was one of the few times I completely denied my heritage and claimed to be Argentinian. <bg>
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
