Where's The BEEF? Awards Banquet Menu

[Greg Powers]

We are going to Texas for the Grand National, home of the best beef in the country? I was surprised to see a chicken , a salmon and a veggie option and only a chicken fried steak option,no standard beef option for the awards banquet. Is it just too costly to have a beef option or am I just out of touch with menu options for hotel banquets? I have always found it rather humorous to pay $65.00 for a piece of chicken (brings to mind the old rubber chicken jokes). No disrespect to the national planning board, just asking a question to see if anyone else had similar thoughts.

[Barry M Wheeler #2189]

Greg, I for one am glad to see a "chewy" type steak after my misadventure at the GN last year. (Piece of steak got stuck in my esophagus.) But I did kind of wonder myself.

[Jay Friedman]

On a trip to Texas some years ago, I learned that chicken-fried steak is steak in spite of its name.  Never did learn what exactly "chicken fried" meant.

[Barry M Wheeler #2189]

It has a breaded coating and is usually covered with white gravy. It's very popular in Indiana as well. It's tenderized so that you can cut it with a fork.

[The Tassie Devil(le)]

Sounds like a Beef Schnitzel.

Bruce.

[Cape Cod Fleetwood]

If anyone wants the recipe for chicken fried steak, I'll post it.
I make a KILLER chicken fried steak, one of my favorites to cook, but labor intensive.
\m/
Laurie

[Carl Fielding]

Barry has it exactly right. If you can't cut a chicken fried steak with your fork , a c.f.s. quite simply "ain't right" (to misquote Louis Armstrong regarding the rightness - actually wrongness of beans w/o rice). Over 30 years ago I made a trip cross country to transport a Cadillac purchased on Long Island. Played in "The City" a while as I was already there. The best , and I am here to tell you , the absolutely BEST c.f.s. I have ever had in my entire life , was a tequila c.f.s. from a joint on Houston Street. Place called "TOMMIE'S RED CADILLAC". Seriously ! I went back a few years later , and they had had to change the name to "Tommie's Red Cad" , or "Caddy" , was it ? Some infringement issue , it seems. Too bad. Doesn't quite have the same ring to it. It has been WAY too long since I was last in Manhattan. I'm not sure I can ever get back.

Barry : please try to give me a call this weekend , or even tonight after 7:00 P.M. , PST. Or whenever convenient for you.  408-621-8261   - Carl

[James Landi]

Lord Fielding,

Perhaps "The Red Cadillac" of your youth moved to New Jersey--- check this out me Lord:   https://www.theredcadillacnj.com/menu/

Happy day,  James, the headmOnster

[nysdarkblue]

For get about where the beef is, my question is "WHERE ARE THE PORTA POTTIES?" The show fields are so big, and because I have a later model car, I am always away from the Hotel. Maybe a few can be put up on the out skirts of the show field this year so old folks like me won't have any problems.

[Barry M Wheeler #2189]

That's why old guys use Depends. My car is about as new as they let on the field, so think where I'm going to be.

[nysdarkblue]

LOL, hold your horses, I am not that old!

[Bobby B]

LOL, hold your horses, I am not that old!

That Depends.... 
                     Bobby

[nysdarkblue]

LOL

[Scot Minesinger]

Well to resolve this serious problem(s), what to do in the future is to help run the next GN; then the menu can be perfect, portable potties on the show field so you don't have to walk 200 yards, and etc.  It is not easy running a GN and some would say it is thankless.  The true cost to attend a GN if there were no dedicated volunteers would be at least $1,000 instead of $50 or $60 dollars (what ever the fee is?)

Thanks to all the volunteers.

Provided the hotel is nice, low or no rain, and there is a good attendance of Cadillacs and Lasalles, it will be amazing!

[Barry M Wheeler #2189]

Scot, Funny you should mention "help running" the next (2019) GN. As a matter of fact, I am, and I WILL bring up Porta Potties to Beth. (And we won't have chicken-fried steak, either.) Look for us in Texas. We'll be wearing snazzy white shirts with a racing silk logo on it. Two cute blondes, (Beth and Juanda), a still cute white-haired hill girl (Gay), and assorted older men.

[Scot Minesinger]

Barry,

Thank you!  Being a contributor to the 2017 GN, it is great to read about volunteering.  Unfortunately I'm considerably tainted when an insignificant GN complaint is written.