#ordering the biggest tomahawk steaks

[chroniclesofachemist]

TW: eating disorder

So, I've had lifelong anorexia. I'd say I'm recovered but its more like in remission. As a teen/kid though, put any form of meat produce in front of me and I would consume it. I went to a steakhouse in the states as a 12yr old and ordered the biggest thing they had and annihilated it. turns out it was a competition steak like eat this in 10 mins its free, it took me 30 but looking back it must have been bizarre watching a stick ripping into a tomahawk.

im at a restaurant right now and there's this like 16 year old kid sitting at the table next to me completely alone with like 6 racks of ribs. hes eating like 1 rib every 10 seconds and the poor server who was assigned to him has to keep getting him new ribs. ive been here for an hour just watching this kid inhale ribs like he's gonna die the next day. he probably will given the amount of hot sauce he put on them

[junker-town]

This Titans rookie got stuck with a $10,000 dinner bill by his teammates

SO MUCH STEAK!

The rookie meal is one of the NFL’s time-honored traditions, but Titans’ linebacker D’Andre Walker was not prepared for what his teammates consumed Monday night.

The Titans went to the legendary Jeff Ruby’s Steakhouse in Nashville and unleashed, ordering over $10,000 in food and drink, including $225 pours of cognac and indulgent helpings of some of the most expensive beef in the world.

When it was all said and done, Walker was on the hook for $10,487.27 before tip. Assuming he tipped 18 percent the bill would have come out to $12,369.58. That might not sound like a lot of money for an NFL player, but Walker isn’t some multi-million-dollar athlete. He was taken in the fifth round and is now on injured reserve. The meal represented 2.7 percent of his total salary.

You can see how this matches up against a range of normal-person salaries below.

Now look, I know 2.7 percent might not mean as much to someone with any amount of disposable income compared to someone living paycheck-to-paycheck, but this is still a staggering chunk to spend on one meal. Beyond the fact that his teammates stuck him with the bill, let’s look at how they spent all that money:

Someone ordered 40 OUNCES of Takamori Wagyu, one of the most expensive cuts of beef in the world. Total cost: $1,000

As a table they ordered 4.5 ounces of Remy Louis XIII cognac. Total cost: $1,014

A bottle of 2016 Opus One, regarded as one of the best years for the wine. Total cost: $650

Biggest surprise

These are big football lads with big football appetites. While I appreciate the sheer gluttony of ordering monstrous portions of Wagyu, personally, I would have ordered “The Hatchet,” a 30-oz tomahawk ribeye aged for 65 days. That’s a little on the funkier side, and I get that a lot of dry aging is an acquired taste — but honestly, I think this would have been more satisfying than eating so much Wagyu it ruins the beef’s mystique.

Smartest buy

The wild mushroom gnocchi. Might seem like sacrilege at a high-end steakhouse, but well-made gnocchi is divine. This is a dish that is carried by a good chef because there’s nowhere to hide in its simplicity. Cooking a steak perfectly just requires practice and a good product. A multi-ingredient dish like this needs finesse.

The moral of this story

Tradition is important, but so is assertiveness. I would have mercilessly mocked whomever ordered 40 ounces of Wagyu for being so gauche. But no matter how upset you get at dropping a chunk of your yearly paycheck on a meal, at least your dog is always there for you.

[doodlesanime]

Werewolves can indulge…as a treat