Steaks: Puck, plate or platter?

[Ephraim]

Hi.

This is not in the voting section because I don't think it can be properly discussed by simple choosing of an option. So, elaborate and elucidate at will, y'all.

I've noticed a trend in advertisements in some ot these chain and high-end restaurants that dinner steaks have been modified from a flat cut of meat of varying sizes to these dense little, unmarbelled, circular, two inch disks that a bear ... I mean... the customer...is supposed to be satisfied with paying siginificant money to enjoy.  Augmented with lots of buttered bread, too much salad and lumpy mashed potatoes that the restaurant believes is "Haute Cuisine" because they say it is.

O'course, I feel differently about my meat on a plate.
I have a copy of the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance simply for the kitchen scene where they pan fry these 4 lb. slabs in pans as big as car tires and call them steaks. Served along with a quarl of baked beans and deep dish apple pie...for a dollar!
But, nowadays, even this bear would consider that extreme in the other direction.

Here's the debate topic:
If you're in a good, formal, dresses and suits restaurant and you order the steak dinner ranging from $30 - $50 U.S. (Or an equivalent amount in your land), what would you expect to see coming to your table?

A "hockey puck" on a saucer, stuffed in the middle with marinara ssuce or fake lobster meat? 

A thick, flat portion occupying up to 1/2 of your dinner plate?

A foot-long sirloin roast, sliced like bread? 

Include choice of side dishes, if you wish.

For me, they'd be either a twice-baked potaoto or Steak Fries, and some hot steamed vegetable (carrots, corn, green beans, broccoli, peas with pearl onions and mushrooms on a smal pilaf of steamed white Jasmine rice.).

And a side dish of Fettucine Alfredo, seasoned with coarse black pepper!

Gotta have my 'Fredo!

[Lady Luna]

Shit for THAT kind of money I had better see a fecking side of BEEF laying on my plate with all....and I do mean ALL the fixins as the bear mentioned in his favorite kitchen scene and nothing less!

I say go to Golden Corral and kill your own!  All you can eat Baby!

[Alister]

I'm with Luna, on this one. That had better be one big plate, and have one big slab of barely-seen-fire meat on it. I'm thinking Big Texan style (the guys who do the 72oz steak - eat it all, it's free!), along with some good cornbread rolls, and a bigass Idaho baked potato dripping with cholesterol and everything a person could stuff it with.

[Ansuru]

Seventy...


two...


ounce...


steak???!

 



*falls over, holding his belly*


I surrender!

[Alister]

Never managed to finish one...

[Yuri]

They call it the family meal right?


...Right?

[Alister]

They call it the family meal right?


...Right?

*grins* Nope!

[SilverWolf]

Go to Texas Roadhouse. Every steak in there is 5 times the size of a human stomach. 

[Ephraim]

That's my point! That's 6 pounds!

I eat one of those things and my mate's paws woh't touch when he hugs me!

Does the fat on it count?   

What if there's a bone in it.
I gotta gnaw that clean? 

Is it just the meat or do they include the salad and sides with it?

O'course...
If the wolfy eats one of those, I wouldn't have to feed him for a week...
He'd probably lay in bed, or be in the bathroom, for two or three days, too.
*speaking low to myself*
Lots of bear chasing cuties in Texas.

 Hmmmm.

 

[Alister]

S'far as I remember, you just have to finish the steak. They come already trimmed, so not much fat to deal with.

[Ephraim]

Well then, FORGET IT!

I like a nice 50/50 balance between the "White" and the "red" parts of my sirloins. 

How else are you gonna keep it sizzling when it comes to your table? 

*My wolf mate standing beside me, he elbows my midsection gently and smirks to all of you.*

And he wonders where this comes from!