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Freedom Is Eating Steak Well Done with Ketchup: In Trump’s Washington even eating is politicized.
National Review ^ | March 18, 2017 | Matthew Continetti

Posted on 03/18/2017 9:57:35 AM PDT by EveningStar

... In Washington under Trump even so rudimentary an activity as eating has become politicized, weighted with aesthetic and class significance, put under the jurisdiction of social arbiters who declare what is woke and what is haram. “Actually, How Donald Trump Eats His Steak Matters,” proclaims a contributor to Eater.com. “The president of the United States insists that his steaks be cooked well-done. Unfortunately, that’s a big problem.” But why is it a problem, Eater.com? Why should so trivial a detail impress itself on the average person’s consciousness for even a microsecond? Aren’t there far more important subjects that warrant reflection and criticism and debate: health care, trade and tax policy, missile threats, the men and women dropping dead from heroin? ...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fakenews; ketchup; steak; steakgate; trump; trumpsteak
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To: Guenevere

I read an article about what food he likes. It talked about his steak choice but also mentioned he loves meat loaf sandwiches. I wonder if he likes BLTs.


61 posted on 03/18/2017 11:21:31 AM PDT by MamaB (Heb : 13:2)
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To: EveningStar

When I grew up, my mom always cooked well done steaks. There was no steak sauce—just ketchup, salt and pepper.

When I eat steak and eggs for breakfast, I always cook up a breakfast steak which is much thinner. I always cook those perfectly well done because they are so thin. After I cook the steak, I cook the hash browns in the grease left from the steak. That taste perfection left in the pan from a well done steak is nirvana. With a little added peanut oil, the hash browns are perfectly browned. Next I do over easy eggs and breakfast is ready for that bottle of ketchup and a large mug of jo.

Hint: To get perfect hash browns, I keep baked potatoes in the refrigerator. Once delivered from their skins, cut up and in the fry pan, they fry up crisp on the outside and creamy on the inside.


62 posted on 03/18/2017 11:24:29 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental illness: A totalitarian psyche.)
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To: RegulatorCountry
I had the misfortune of having a mother that suffered from the Irish disease, couldn't cook, and all meat was burned.

I had the good fortune to have been born and raised in the West were other traditions were observed. My Grandmother, Fathers side, was a Saint and Gods gift to cooking introduced me to real food.

63 posted on 03/18/2017 11:28:27 AM PDT by Little Bill (o)
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To: Bodega
I began to eat steak tartar in Madagascar at about the same time I began relishing escargot. It’s amazing to me the French can walk upright with all the parasites in their bodies.

I've been eating raw hamburger(if it is of good quality) right out of the package or my meat grinder since around 1975. Love it. My wife gags at my eating it that way. Her parents and her prefer shoe leather beef. My parents couldn't eat meat with any pink either. Such is life.

64 posted on 03/18/2017 11:28:54 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: EveningStar
President Trump, if you are reading this, try this on your steak:


65 posted on 03/18/2017 11:29:31 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental illness: A totalitarian psyche.)
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To: jonrick46

That looks good.

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66 posted on 03/18/2017 11:30:12 AM PDT by Mears
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To: MaxistheBest

I like mine grilled, medium, with a little salt, and a good amount of pepper and garlic seared into it while it’s grilled. With a baked potato, garden salad, and sautéed mushrooms and onions on the side.

Getting hungry here...


67 posted on 03/18/2017 11:31:13 AM PDT by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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To: elcid1970
A couple of years ago, there were reports out of Wisconsin of illnesses caused a traditional holiday cannibal sandwich.

Just sayin'.

I bought a cuisnart eons ago, and steak tartare was in the menu booklet. Yes, I made it once. Didn't care for it.

I do like my steak rare, though, half a notch above blue.

68 posted on 03/18/2017 11:35:49 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: EveningStar

This from people who drink SLOP Starbucks, eat tofu and kale and have grass in smoothies! The man can eat whatever, however, he wants. I, personally don’t understand bleeding meat. Cooking means-cooked! If I wanted bloody meat I’d bite a living cow; but hey,keep your nose outta my plate and I’ll do the same when you pay big $$ for two shrimp on a plate smeared with baby food.


69 posted on 03/18/2017 11:42:23 AM PDT by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: EveningStar

I eat my steak rare, so rare that blood will dribble down my chin when I bite into it.

It takes a flaming hot hickory fire to grill a perfect rare steak.

I would grill Trump’s steak however he wants it. It’s HIS steak!


70 posted on 03/18/2017 11:43:41 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Long live Yoga Pants! ( and boycott 84 lumber. Let's bankrupt the bastards!))
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To: EveningStar

“The president of the United States insists that his steaks be cooked well-done. Unfortunately, that’s a big problem.”

Sounds like grounds for impeachment/S


71 posted on 03/18/2017 11:55:54 AM PDT by Paperpusher
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To: Aria

I like beef rare, except for prime rib. I like eggs too.


72 posted on 03/18/2017 11:57:28 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: EveningStar
Eating too much beef too often can be a problem for people, but does anybody really care how Trump takes his steaks?

I suspect it's all about media competition for eyeballs. The writer clicked on the story and wrote about it and now we're talking about it.

That's a big win for Eater.com, but are they really being serious or are they just trolling for readers?

73 posted on 03/18/2017 12:04:01 PM PDT by x
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To: JimRed

Yep, that’s freedom! But only at government approved sites.


74 posted on 03/18/2017 12:05:35 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Calvin Locke

Food nazis targeted Milwaukee as the `home’ of the cannibal sandwich, originally called `Hackpeter’ by local German settlers. Very popular in the 1950’s.

Faculty smorgasbords at St. Norbert College in De Pere featured steak tartare. Some guests would pause until Premontre priests had each spoken a blessing over the raw beef, making it sanctified and safe.

Rare steak is the only way for me though a food critic suggested “for the perfect steak, instruct your waiter to stride briskly through the kitchen while waving the steak in the direction of the stove, then serve.”

Makes you go hmm...


75 posted on 03/18/2017 12:08:07 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Bodega
I began to eat steak tartar in Madagascar...

Well, at least the zebu parasites are probably endemic like almost everything else there.

So you have that going for you.

76 posted on 03/18/2017 12:18:02 PM PDT by semimojo
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To: EveningStar

The only question i have is if he uses Heinz Ketchup? Now that could get him in trouble. ha ha ha


77 posted on 03/18/2017 12:49:17 PM PDT by Plumberman27
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To: EveningStar

LoL. I sometimes like my steak well done and topped with ketchup.


78 posted on 03/18/2017 12:56:06 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: EveningStar

Very well done with (LOTS OF) Hunt’s ketchup. That is the only way I would ever think of eating a steak.


79 posted on 03/18/2017 1:49:27 PM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: EveningStar

This is about as rare as I like it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrHdbhtJNfA&t=6m21s

Mrs. JohnnyP says that’s still raw. She likes it a little pink. I have to take it to about 155 or 160 for her.


80 posted on 03/18/2017 2:20:31 PM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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