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On 2024-12-16 7:17 a.m., Ed P wrote:
> On 12/16/2024 8:26 AM, BryanGSimmons wrote:
> 
>> I used to buy them when I was about 14, 15 years old, to eat raw.  
>> They were usually under $1.  Normal kids spent their money on other 
>> things. I prefer rare or medium rare beef, but all I got at home was 
>> medium well to well done, so raw was a treat. 
> 
> As a kid, beef was well done.  Mostly pot roast or a very thin cut 
> steak.  My wife introduced me to rare to medium done beef.
> 
> It may have been a generational thing back then.  We went to a cousin's 
> wedding in 1966.  The meal served was a beautiful prime rib, done 
> medium.  Many of the older guests sent theirs back to be cooked a bit 
> more and get rid of that pink.

Probably 5 or 6 years before that, I was in a restaurant with my parents
and grandmother (who always paid). I ordered a steak medium-rare, which
was a bit daring then. They all said: "Are you sure? You won't like it!"
But I did and soon progressed to rare.