I suppose this makes me a hopeless dullard, but no trip to Southcenter is complete without a visit to Sizzler (note: I only go to Southcenter about once a year). But I always order my steaks medium-rare.

Locally speaking, nothing makes me giggle more than local chain Salty's (Alki, Redondo Beach, and Portland), which is a little bit of Palm Springs moved up north - lots of wealthy old alcoholics out for a night on the town.

Yes but wasn't a key point that people, sensing culinary snobbery, lie about who they actually order steaks? The actual order data should be more reliable, we just need a broader market view. And I would think that socioeconomic class is more selected for than politics at Longhorn restaurants, though my friends parents are extremely well off east coast liberals, and they all eat beef charred to hell.

Steak doneness is pretty standardized--people know what they want, and you can get that with the same phrase at any restaurant . . . except at chain steak places like Longhorn. Have you ever actually ordered a steak at Longhorn? It's guaranteed to be way rarer than the standard. Knowing that, people will say they want Medium to get a steak that arrives Rare.

Wow that was one hell of a troll post you wrote there Tobias!

/not biting

Longhorn steakhouses? Who gives a rat's ass?

I think that is a bunch of BS. I'd like to see a generational breakdown. My parents are liberal as hell, but insist on cooking the daylights out of their meat as do the majority of my older family members. Most (not all) people I know in my generation prefer rare to medium-rare meat.