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"How would you like your steak?"

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  • kluursK kluurs

    When I was a kid, we went to Ponderosa a few times. For my 50th birthday (2 decades ago), my wife and I visited Wisconsin. We drove around a bit, eventually got lost and by late afternoon, we were ready to eat cardboard...and then we came upon a Ponderosa... I was overjoyed - to once again as they still had your "all you can eat buffet" with genuine red jello, vanilla pudding with vanilla wafers - and steak that was pretty mediocre - but was recognizable as formerly a carbon based life form. I was overjoyed. I treasure the memory even if we never repeat it.

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    @kluurs said in "How would you like your steak?":

    When I was a kid, we went to Ponderosa a few times. For my 50th birthday (2 decades ago), my wife and I visited Wisconsin. We drove around a bit, eventually got lost and by late afternoon, we were ready to eat cardboard...and then we came upon a Ponderosa... I was overjoyed - to once again as they still had your "all you can eat buffet" with genuine red jello, vanilla pudding with vanilla wafers - and steak that was pretty mediocre - but was recognizable as formerly a carbon based life form. I was overjoyed. I treasure the memory even if we never repeat it.

    So yeah, sounds like Ponderosa’s were still pretty much what I remember from the 80s…

    The Brad

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      We never went to steak houses growing up. They weren’t really in the family budget. My mom overcooked steaks at home.

      "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
      -Cormac McCarthy

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        Growing up with 6 children in the family we never went to any restaurant.

        Maybe once a year to Howard Johnson during summer vacation.

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          We used to lick the road clean for sustenance.

          I was only joking

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            We licked ours uphill. Both ways.

            "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
            -Cormac McCarthy

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            • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

              We never went to steak houses growing up. They weren’t really in the family budget. My mom overcooked steaks at home.

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              @jon-nyc said in "How would you like your steak?":

              We never went to steak houses growing up. They weren’t really in the family budget. My mom overcooked steaks at home.

              Same here. It gave us very strong jaws.

              “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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              • CopperC Copper

                Growing up with 6 children in the family we never went to any restaurant.

                Maybe once a year to Howard Johnson during summer vacation.

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                @Copper said in "How would you like your steak?":

                Growing up with 6 children in the family we never went to any restaurant.

                Maybe once a year to Howard Johnson during summer vacation.

                WOW! You got to go to HoJos?

                I was allowed to share a piece of toast from the lunch/breakfast counter at GC Murphy’s once.

                The Brad

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                  Raise your own cows.

                  You get steak.

                  It can vary greatly. Some of the most interesting came from a Guernsey yearling (you could buy the three day old bull calves for $8 each) we literally raised on sweet feed. Steaks had a sweet taste.

                  “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                  Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                    Our neighbours had cows. We used to lick them clean for sustenance.

                    I was only joking

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                      I thought you only did that with sheep. Did you wear your wellies?

                      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                      • MikM Mik

                        I thought you only did that with sheep. Did you wear your wellies?

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                        @Mik said in "How would you like your steak?":

                        I thought you only did that with sheep. Did you wear your wellies?

                        Never on a first date.

                        I was only joking

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                          So traditional!

                          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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