On Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 9:57:59 AM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >
> > Gary wrote:
>
> > > Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > > > Skinny fries have their place. For one thing, they have more
> > > > surface area to crisp up, if that's what you like.
> > >
> > > Aka 'shoestring fries'. Whenever I have a nice steak dinner, my
> > > favorite sides are a pile of nice salty deep fried shoestring
> > > fries and a pile of sweet corn with butter.
>
> > I'll take a salad instead of the corn, but otherwise I'm right
> > with you.
>
> OK. I was talking about 2 different scenarios.
>
> Home cooked steak meals, it was always steak, shoestring fries
> and buttered corn.

Home cooked meals for us would never feature fries and corn. Always
salad first, then the steak and starch.

> The few times I took my young daughter to Outback Steak House,
> (she liked it), the dinner came with a salad first to eat
> while the steaks were cooking. Then the steaks came with a
> choice of potato. Either baked or fries.

We always eat the salad first, at home or away.

Cindy Hamilton