As I was putting on my makeup this morning I realized that
this week could have been a fabulous episode of Seinfeld. And I am Elaine. Just
remember… Elaine worked for
J. Peterman … her job was a writer and she was
responsible for the descriptions of items in the J. Peterman catalog.
So then, picture this… I am not writing a catalog, I am
writing a menu. This isn’t my trip down
the menu highway. I have had to design
and put together three different restaurants ever changing menus. I would much rather have to write vivid
descriptions of hiking boots than 7 different steaks.
But I sat there in my “menu meeting” reading the old and
trying to come up with the new and noticed there were two rib-eyes on the menu.
One was a “bone-in” rib eye and the other was obviously no bone. Here I am in a
room with 2 other men… and I couldn’t help myself, I had to ask this question…
and then explain why I am asking it…
“bone in” rib eye
as opposed
to the alternative without the bone? What the hell am I supposed to do with a
$6 bone? Both men looked at me like I
had just sprouted another head. Confused, bewildered, speechless is what they
were. And finally one says… “are you kidding me??”
Well, no, genius… I am not kidding you… why would I spend
$6 more dollars for a bone I am not going to eat… if I ate here once a week for
an entire year and put that $6 in my pocket I could have a new DOONEY after a
year… and I never kid about my Dooneys.
And here is the MAN answer… The bone is for the flavor…
more flavor with the bone.
Well I am already getting the most flavorful steak on the
menu, I am not concerned with a bone. And what are all you Neanderthals going
to do … sit around and gnaw your bone in a fine restaurant??
So I get home and ask my husband the very same question…
I get the astonished look and the MAN answer… the bone is for the flavor.
They missed the whole point of my question …my point was…
if you offer a bone in rib eye … at 18 ounces.. don’t offer the same size
without the bone. Offer a smaller size without the bone or you will get the
stupid question .
Every man missed that point… they thought I didn’t know what
the bone was for... Lawd Help ME!
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