Unhappy restaurant experience

[Barefootgirl]

I don't fancy bloody steak. I'll have the raclette if Raps doesn't want it.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Ooh... give me my steak mooing and eating grass. *Cue Homer Simpson drool*

[repsac]

That's the thing about CFS. It's usually cooked so well done that if you drop it on the floor, it bounces. Kidding aside, it's one of my favorite things to have for dinner or breakfast. Great with grits. And this gives me something of an amusing idea for southern sightings...

[chainedbarista]

i like a good steak done on the outside and 'buttery' on the inside (usually red and a bit soft, kind of sushi like in texture). i love the way it feels, just like toro tuna sushi; firm yet 'melts' in your mouth.

cheap steak, unless it's in stew and well marinaded, doesn't pass through these lips. i'd have returned the steak as well; some things just weren't meant to bleed, and that's one of them. *horf*

[Ree]

I'm having a hard time understanding how one can be so grossed out by blood from a chicken fried steak that they wouldn't eat anything else. It's beef. Beef is constantly served like that in various forms...

now that it's clear the juicy meat in question was a steak - no problem. Sister needs to get over herself. Quite an over-reaction.

Can anyone say unsympathetic and judgmental?

Until I met my husband, and he started serving beef slightly to the rare side, I was completely grossed out by bloody meat. In fact, even now, I can't handle it with my bare hands.

I gag when I have to make hamburger patties or meatballs.
I used to work in a deli that was attached to the meat department , and I was grossed out every day. I would walk around, afraid to touch any surface in case I touched the raw meat or blood.

I grew up believing that all meat should be cooked until it is dark and one step above shoe leather.

My husband, for those who don't know, is a chef, and when we were dating, he used his expertise in the kitchen to impress me. One night, he cooked steak, and it still had blood running. I was really grossed out, but I had just started dating the guy, he had gone to all that work, and I was also raised to be overly polite and hide my own feelings to spare another person's, so I decided to make the best of it and choke it down.
I couldn't believe the taste. It was so flavourful and juicy.
After that, I always ordered my beef on the medium side. I still can't stand a lot of runny blood, but a little pink in the meat is OK.

I don't think the waitress deserved any admonishment. She was trying to provide customer service.
The manager is an ass. With an attitude like that, he will soon see his business fall off.
She probably should have checked first, before making the offer, because an employee should never speak on behalf of management unless they are absolutely sure of the policies, but the fact that she had already made the offer should have been enough for the manager to just absorb the cost of one piece of pie. It's not like they would lose money on it, and the goodwill gesture could actually earn them future business, while rescinding the offer made him look bad.

[Brighid45]

I generally like my steaks bloody rare, but chicken-fried steak is not supposed to be rare at all, for reasons mentioned in other posts here. Since it's a processed and tenderized steak, it should be thoroughly cooked all the way through. I like CFS with minimal breading and lots of pepper in the gravy, with a couple of nice fresh buttermilk biscuits on the side for dipping.

In my opinion, the manager should have honored the waitress' promise and comped your sister a piece of pie. Come ON, it's a piece of pie for Pete's sake! Not filet and Beluga! The manager was a cheap jerkwad. And he needs to check the temperature on the fryer, sounds like the oil's too hot.