All Raw Beef In Restaurants Not Fit to be Eaten Raw

[Samurai_Jerk]

I cooked myself a rare steak last night and I've been spray painting the toilet since that earthquake woke me up this morning. I can't believe the amount of liquid gold I'm producing. At least I don't feel sick.

I love my steaks really rare... like sorta cold in the middle and have had this only once at Tony Romas in Fremont, CA.

I feel your pain and wish I could have chowed out on some steak in your place, despite the consequences. Next time you feel like having a rare steak, just remember what happened to you today and donate that bloody steak to me and I will take the toilet duty for you. No steak sauce please, just a little bit of pepper and enough salt to make it look like it snowed a bit.

It's my punishment for being a cheapskate and buying Aussie beef.

Serves you right!

What beef do you prefer?

American prime but I don't think you can buy that at a supermarket in Japan.

[Coligny]

At least you can brush your teeth with tap water. The worst are the abdominal spasm, brown tide are annoying, but being unable to breath like if someone stabbed you in the gut gets old fast...

[Russell]

I cooked myself a rare steak last night and I've been spray painting the toilet since that earthquake woke me up this morning. I can't believe the amount of liquid gold I'm producing. At least I don't feel sick.

I love my steaks really rare... like sorta cold in the middle and have had this only once at Tony Romas in Fremont, CA.

I feel your pain and wish I could have chowed out on some steak in your place, despite the consequences. Next time you feel like having a rare steak, just remember what happened to you today and donate that bloody steak to me and I will take the toilet duty for you. No steak sauce please, just a little bit of pepper and enough salt to make it look like it snowed a bit.

It's my punishment for being a cheapskate and buying Aussie beef.

Serves you right!

What beef do you prefer?

American prime but I don't think you can buy that at a supermarket in Japan.

How is that defined, American prime?

I used to have a prejudice against American beef with all its hormones, etc., but when I was in Texas I had some great beef there. How do I know whether it was prime beef?

[wagyl]

American prime but I don't think you can buy that at a supermarket in Japan.

How is that defined, American prime?

I used to have a prejudice against American beef with all its hormones, etc., but when I was in Texas I had some great beef there. How do I know whether it was prime beef?

There will surely be better authorities, but for a start http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef#USDA_beef_grades

[Samurai_Jerk]

Right. Roughly the top three percent of US beef. If a restaurant serves prime they'll advertise it. Of course there's also some excellent hormone free aged grass-fed beef that doesn't get the prime certification.

I used to think Aussie beef was garbage because of the gamy shit they usually sell in supermarkets here. But then I had some black label beef at a barbecue and was converted.

[matsuki]

No steak sauce please

Says the asshole that used all my A1!!

[IparryU]

No steak sauce please

Says the asshole that used all my A1!!

I used you bbq sauce a few times. A1 dont go good on sammiches man.

[wagyl]

It had to be about condiments.....

[Samurai_Jerk]

No steak sauce please

Says the asshole that used all my A1!!

People still use A1?

[wagyl]

No steak sauce please

Says the asshole that used all my A1!!

People still use A1?

Not any more. Some bastard used the last of it!

[Wage Slave]

I'm still very fond of a bit of HP with fried breakfast things - though I read that its falling out of favour back in Blighty. Both A1 and HP are Victorian (at a stretch) British concoctions and perhaps they have reached the end of the line. A1 never achieved the same popularity in the UK as it did in the US - not sure why.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2895747/Brown-sales-year-19-HP-Sauce-chips.html

[Samurai_Jerk]

I'm still very fond of a bit of HP with fried breakfast things - though I read that its falling out of favour back in Blighty. Both A1 and HP are Victorian (at a stretch) British concoctions and perhaps they have reached the end of the line. A1 never achieved the same popularity in the UK as it did in the US - not sure why.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2895747/Brown-sales-year-19-HP-Sauce-chips.html

All somebody has to do is come up with an organic artisanal brown sauce with an ironic beard on the label and the hipsters will start buying it by the gallon.

Anyway, I'm still not out of the woods yet but things are better than yesterday. To be fair to the beef, it could just be the result of the bender I was on last week which I topped off with drinking Suntory Good Wine-brand white wine from a paper carton on Sunday morning at a mochitsuki taikai. Not to mention all the unhygienic homemade food served at the the taikai.

[Mike Oxlong]

I'm offended every time someone tries to serve soy.

“Soy started out as a legume that was rotated with other annual crops throughout Asia. Because it can fix nitrogen, soy was used as a green manure. The Chinese characters for barley, millet, rice, and wheat are pictures of the grains, because it’s the edible parts that matter. The character for soy shows the roots, because it was grown as a cover crop, not a food. Soy contains so many anti-nutrients that it isn’t edible for humans without a lot of processing, substantially more than other seeds.

First of all, soy contains trypsin inhibitors. Trypsin, you’ll remember, is a digestive enzyme produced in the pancreas. That’s why eating soy causes gas, bloating, pain, and diarrhea. Fermenting soy will deactivate most of the trypsin inhibitors. In a study of fifty Asian cultures, the people that had found a way to disable the trypsin inhibitors were the only ones that considered soy edible. Miso, which is highly fermented, entered the cuisine of Asia sometime between the second century BCE and the fourth century CE. Tofu, which is not fermented, was invented in 164 BCE., and tempeh, which is fermented, was probably developed in the 1600s. Monks took “to tofu because it helped them keep their vows of sexual abstinence: soy’s phytoestrogens lower testosterone levels, and hence their libidos. “Except in areas of famine,” writes soy expert Kaayla Daniel, “tofu was served as a condiment, consumed in small amounts, usually in fish broth, not as a main course.” The Chinese ate soy as a protein source only when they were starving— when they also ate their children.

Fish broth is a key detail in the story of soy. If you make it past the intestinal distress caused by the trypsin inhibitors, the next problem with soy is the phytates. Phytates, remember, bind with minerals in your digestive tract, making them inaccessible. Soy has such a high level of phytates that no amount of soaking or fermenting will disable them all. You can see the wisdom in serving soy with fish broth, as the broth provides a large dose of minerals to counteract the phytates.”

“Soy is also a known goitrogen. Researchers have known since the 1930s that soy can suppress and permanently damage your thyroid if you eat enough of it. Kaayla Daniel writes,

"soy proponents scoff at the notion that soy causes thyroid problems because, they say, goiter is not a problem in Asia. In fact, the New York Times has reported an epidemic of cretinism in impoverished rural areas of China where iodine deficiency is widespread and poverty forces people to eat more soy than the small quantities that are the norm…. In Japan, where soy consumption is the highest of any country in Asia, thyroid disease is widespread. After all, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, the autoimmune form of hypothyroidism, was first detected in Japan, and the prevalence there of thyroid disease has motivated Japanese researchers to undertake important studies proving the adverse effects of soy foods on the thyroid gland."

In 1980, government researchers in Britain identified soy-dependent vegans as a population at risk for thyroid disease. Since then, the British Committee on Toxicity (COT) has added to that list infants fed soy formula and adults using soy foods or soy supplements. Researchers have known since the 1950s that “soy foods cause thyroid damage, especially in infants. The insult is so strong that for some infants “hypothyroidism persists despite medication.” In a study done on healthy Japanese adults, thirty grams of soy for thirty days was enough to provoke thyroid disruptions.”

Excerpt From: Lierre Keith. “The Vegetarian Myth.” iBooks.

Nice find, source? I would love to piss off a few vegans with this

Tofu Intake is Associated with Poor Cognitive Performance among Community-Dwelling Elderly in China

[matsuki]

LOL, so like many things...too much of it will fuck you up and relying on it as a staple or over consumption is insane.

[Russell]

Nice find, source? I would love to piss off a few vegans with this

Tofu Intake is Associated with Poor Cognitive Performance among Community-Dwelling Elderly in China

Hmm, soy contains compounds that mimic estrogen, isn't it?

[matsuki]

Nice find, source? I would love to piss off a few vegans with this

Tofu Intake is Associated with Poor Cognitive Performance among Community-Dwelling Elderly in China

Hmm, soy contains compounds that mimic estrogen, isn't it?

Excess estrogen, poor cognitive thinking....suddenly things start to make sense.

[Taro Toporific]

I have just learned that the standards for basashi (raw horse meat) are incredibly strict. ...

"Fresh Horsemeat"

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