On Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 1:57:29 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
> 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.

Why "quaint"?

> But didn't you also have a hangup about your food
> not touching?

Yes, but that's not why we eat the salad first.

Cindy Hamilton