If I see nother 'Kobe [insert slider/burger/meatloaf/milkshake/iceream]' menu item...

I look at it this way: if they didn't use the trim to make some $$$, then the really nice piece of steak would cost thousands of dollars instead of just hundreds. :rolleyes:

So I have no problem seeing those on a menu. Just don't expect me to ever order them. :lol:

Funny you bring this up because I was thinking about posting the same thing a couple of days ago.

I was at some new fancy place that opened up near here and I met my father at the bar. He ordered Kobe beef sliders, and quite frankly they tasted slightly worse than any other fresh hamburger I'd eaten. Good but I could have done better from the local mega mart on sale ground beef.

Its one of those mind boggling menu items. I can see the point with the trim and all but who wants to pay 3* the price for a hamburger that tastes like any other?

I've yet to have any Kobe or wagyu beef, I'm just a poor boy. Haven't had a real job for over three years, but thanks to various bits of income here and there I manage. On occasion I do get the dry aged steaks from one local market, usually in the 25 - 30 dollar a pound range. Quite a difference from the generic, plastic wrapped 'Select' grade beef one gets at the megamart. I do wonder if Kobe is that much a step above. Someday, perhaps, I'll find out.

Anyway, what I was going to say involved sliders. 20 years or so back my younger brother Matt took over a place in Avon, Colorado - a small ski resort type town. Once a week the Brass Parrot, as he called it, offered sliders for like 50 cents each. Being from the midwest, his version of sliders were of course little two, three bite burgers. Think White Castle.

So one day this fellow from Maine or some such place comes in to the bar on slider day, and orders a dozen. He, of course, was thinking that sliders were referring to raw oysters like he got back home. When the server brought out this big platter with a dozen burgers on it, he was a bit perturbed, if not downright ornery. My brother defused the situation with a few free shots, the guy ate his fill of the sliders and made friends with some of the other patrons by giving the rest away. I'll tell the Chimay Ale story another time.

So make sure that you know what you are ordering, paying attention to regional differences.

mjb.

My opinion is the whole thing is hype, as are alot of these so called health food items. I am old enough to remember The Hula Hoop, Rubicks Cube, Slinky etc. They all disapeared and so will all of this. Funny, now that the economy is down all of the confirmed health food addicts that I know have gone back to their local grocery stores instead of whole foods . Or simply put , now that the cost of non healthy is much cheaper are they more healthy?? :crazy: