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burge13 said:
Steak, like coffee & 'health bowls' (salads) have been marketed perfectly to sheep so those sheep pay over the odds for average food in order to look trendy...
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Steak is trendy? You can get a cheap rump or a steak sandwich in a pub for $10-15, it's not exclusive. Alternatively you can pay top dollar for dry aged, grain fed whatever if that's your jam.

Coffee has a definite wank culture but everywhere you go it's only $4 a cup, give or take. It's not like people are paying $10, $15 etc. for exclusive coffee. Well not to my knowledge anyway.
 
I love a good steak(tomahawk, t bone or porterhouse) but only have it 3 or 4 times a year.
Im not paying top dollar to have someone else cook it either,I do it myself.

I dont pay for salads or coffee either
If Im going out to pay for something its got to be a fiddly, pain in the arse to make at home or some secret grandmothers recipe I havent mastered yet
 
Scotland said:
Steak is trendy? You can get a cheap rump or a steak sandwich in a pub for $10-15, it's not exclusive. Alternatively you can pay top dollar for dry aged, grain fed whatever if that's your jam.

Coffee has a definite wank culture but everywhere you go it's only $4 a cup, give or take. It's not like people are paying $10, $15 etc. for exclusive coffee. Well not to my knowledge anyway.
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There's obviously cheap versions of all this stuff but we've all been places where steaks are $60+ and no better than what I'd make at home. ie trendy, wanky nonsense

Same with coffee. Absolute wank fests. Marketed perfectly, brings in the suckers at an exponential rate
 

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burge13 said:
There's obviously cheap versions of all this stuff but we've all been places where steaks are $60+ and no better than what I'd make at home. ie trendy, wanky nonsense

Same with coffee. Absolute wank fests. Marketed perfectly, brings in the suckers at an exponential rate
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But coffee costs pretty much the same everywhere. If you find some hipster cafe in a Melbourne laneway that can only be found by people who already know where it is then your skinny long mac whatever is still going to be $4 or $5, same as going through McCafe drive through in Broadmeadows. Unless you think that is too much for a coffee which you can make for about 20c in ingredients? I make more coffees than I buy, but that's because too many cafes **** it up.

I have never had a $60 steak. I've had pub/restaurant steaks from $10 up to about $40 and I've had a two $100+ steak meals that were incredible. Agree there's a lot of overpriced crap that's no better than a cheap pub steak, but given a nice cut of steak from the butcher is usually $40-50/kg and serving sizes are usually 150-300g then a steak shouldn't cost $60+ unless it's a very expensive cut that you can't get at the local Woolies. By the same token I've had moderately priced steaks in suburban pubs that were fantastic. Like a lot of things, people often either don't know what they are doing or don't take pride in their work.
 
Scotland said:
But coffee costs pretty much the same everywhere. If you find some hipster cafe in a Melbourne laneway that can only be found by people who already know where it is then your skinny long mac whatever is still going to be $4 or $5, same as going through McCafe drive through in Broadmeadows. Unless you think that is too much for a coffee which you can make for about 20c in ingredients? I make more coffees than I buy, but that's because too many cafes fu** it up.

I have never had a $60 steak. I've had pub/restaurant steaks from $10 up to about $40 and I've had a two $100+ steak meals that were incredible. Agree there's a lot of overpriced crap that's no better than a cheap pub steak, but given a nice cut of steak from the butcher is usually $40-50/kg and serving sizes are usually 150-300g then a steak shouldn't cost $60+ unless it's a very expensive cut that you can't get at the local Woolies. By the same token I've had moderately priced steaks in suburban pubs that were fantastic. Like a lot of things, people often either don't know what they are doing or don't take pride in their work.
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I was shouted a $110 steak at Rockpool by an IT vendor, it really wasnt that good and it still only came with mustard, no side dishes or salad. I have done much better buying a scotch or bone in rib eye from the local butcher over the Weber. The price comes from being "at Rockpool".
 
Sinjin Smith said:
I was shouted a $110 steak at Rockpool by an IT vendor, it really wasnt that good and it still only came with mustard, no side dishes or salad. I have done much better buying a scotch or bone in rib eye from the local butcher over the Weber. The price comes from being "at Rockpool".
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at least his staff made money out of it.......................:oops:
 
Pretty much all vegan food is complete crap and overrated by the 21st century brigade. Most of the IPA's that you spend $90 a case on.
Much prefer a good Steak with Eggs and Chips and a couple of Carlton Draught Beers...in fact that is what I am having tonite with a Penfolds Shiraz thrown in.
 
Sinjin Smith said:
I was shouted a $110 steak at Rockpool by an IT vendor, it really wasnt that good and it still only came with mustard, no side dishes or salad. I have done much better buying a scotch or bone in rib eye from the local butcher over the Weber. The price comes from being "at Rockpool".
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You got a free steak ya miserable bugger.
 

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