On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 10:06:18 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 9:57:59 AM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
>> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> >
>> > 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.

How quaint of you. But didn't you also have a hangup about your food
not touching?