The date #1
I am, of course, making a joke in the name of the place. Saltgrass Steakhouse does not the best steaks in Texas, goodness, no. But it is a place that’s medium-range price for a first date, and their steaks are about a 3 out of 5. Top-notch steak in Texas is expensive as hell – case in point – but worth every penny. Saltgrass isn’t shoddy – not the best, but damn delicious. If you’re from California, like me, understand that Denny’s here serves better steak than you will get at all but 5-star restaurants. Living in Texas gives one a learned bias on what makes a great steak.
I saw some whining online that not EVERY SINGLE strip on FTF is about guns. After weighing your complaints, I say: SUCK IT UP, BITCHES. This is the story of Mick and his life. It’s not ALWAYS going to be about guns – just most of the time. Think you can do better?
Start drawing.
Come up with a comic.
Come up with characters.
Make them interesting.
Buy a domain and learn to make a website.
Then, enslave yourself to updating on a fairly fast schedule.
Get more readers than we do.
And then? Only then? Can you whinge at me about what we should be doing with the comic.
No, really, if you think this is easy, you go ahead and fucking try it.
If you succeed… hell, I’ll still argue with you. I’ve been doing this a long goddamn time. But if you find a way to do it better, more power to ya.
Arrite, here’s some guns for you. Jeez.
*sigh* It’s true…unless we get them from a particular independent butcher, and grill them ourselves, we have a very difficult time finding top-notch steaks in California. Damn granola-smoking, tofu-slurping, tree-hugging, Crocs-wearing, celeb-worshipping trend-sucking dilletantes!
Pfft. I’m sure Florida “steaks” can beat it. Their specialty is “gristle and we can’t even cook it right” – they can’t even cook it medium well or whatever it is you ordered. It’ll either be shoeleather welldone or “show the cow the matches” rare.
I hated steak until I discovered I’d just had lousy crap all my life. There was a Longhorn’s chain restaurant near my house that used to do edible steak until the chef left and it became just like all the rest.
You haven’t eaten nasty steak until you’ve gotten one of those glued-together Frankenstein monstrosities.
Unfortunately, I can do a lot of things, but one of them isn’t cooking, so that means I don’t get decent steak unless I shell out for Del Frisco’s or Ruth’s Chris. Which is rare. (bu-dum-TISH!)
Growing up in Cali, I thought I’d had good steak. Yeeeeah, not so much. We sometimes try it when we’re out there, and the closest I’ve found to a decent steak is at Negri’s in Occidental. Ordered it black/blue rare, wasn’t half bad. Aside from that, steak in Cali is GARBAGE. We tried it at the Marble Room in San Deeg, which had fantastic food otherwise – but that steak was like a strip of roadkill. And not even GOOD roadkill. Living in Texas will spoil you on beef.
“black/blue rare” – and I have learned something new today!
So, then, who DOES make the best steaks in Texas? 🙂
My girlfriend and I have never had anything better than Texas Land and Cattle. Their mesquite-grilled sirloin is killer.
cheers,
Phil
Best everyday steak: Lawry’s. There’s one off 635 and the Tollway. OUSTANDING, and not nearly as expensive as one would expect.
Best fancy steak: Del Frisco’s. Expect to pay out the ass.
Best overall: III Forks, but you will need a second mortgage.
Part of the problem I used to have is I didn’t understand the differences between steaks. Growing up in Livermore, a good steak was a sirloin at Sizzler (and we didn’t get a Sizzler until I was in my late teens).
Los Angeles does have some legendary steak houses, such as Monty’s here in Porn Valley. It wasn’t until I moved to LA that I learned of the beautiful ribeye (which is the official meat of the original Philly cheesesteak sandwich). Thing is, unless you’re cooking it yourself, a real, good steak here in LA will cost you at least $15-$20 a plate. Probably closer to $25 now.
What I’m shocked about is if Heidi is so hot to get into Mick’s pants, why not skip the steakhouse and head straight for the kitchen at her place? It is much more impressive to cook a good steak for someone. It shows competence, confidence, and smells fantastic. I suspect Heidi has something more devious in mind than just a romp.
Hrm… Maybe Heidi doesn’t want Mick meeting her roomate.
On steak: I THOUGHT I’d had good steak when I lived in CA. Then I came to Texas. Even the steaks at Denny’s are better than anything I had in Cali.
On Heidi… you might not be far off.
I’ve had the best and the worst steak in Texas. It’s the only place where I’ve seen USDA ‘Cutter’ grade steak for sale.
I’m a believer in grilling my own steaks – marinate in pineapple juice, slow poach in butter, then finish off with a hot mesquite charcoal. Yum!
Wisht I could find cutter grade. I can my own stew meat and by the time it’s been pressure-canned even the toughest old beast is falling apart–and we all know that tough meat has more flavor.
I generally have to wait for rump roast or chuck on sale.
This is getting better and better!
Just sayin.
commence: fan fucking… complete with obligatory fist pump …YOU TELL EM MR. GRANT!!!
Re: Steaks
Come up to Alberta some time, we’ll find you a steak that’ll open the gates of heaven for you.
Re: The Video
Don’t come up to Alberta, $1200 isn’t going to get you much of a Black Rifle…and you can only shoot it at a RCMP approved range.
Ha I ran sprite comic awhile back ( I know I know zero work cheatin lazy Etc Etc I have heard it all before….) Its a tough thing to do and I even had a webmaster to handle all the Site work.