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Sneakeater

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  1. As I was eating some truly spectacular Flannery lamb loin chops a few nights ago, I reflected that whereas when I started eating out seriously in the '80s Peter Luger's got much better meat than I could dream of obtaining, that is absolutely no longer the case.  Partially it's a matter of what's available to general consumers like me; but also, the more general demand there is for the highest quality meat, the less Luger's can obtain it to the exclusion of others.

    But even that doesn't explain the decline in quality of the meat Luger's gets.  It's as if they decided sometime within the last couple of decades that they no longer have to care.

    When I pointed this out to my brother, he responded that I STILL can't replicate Luger's high-heat ovens at home -- which of course is true.  But it doesn't matter if the meat isn't there.

  2. We can disagree on the merits, of course, but I think we can no longer disagree on the facts.

    More particularly, I don't think Wells is trying to "subvert" the star system.  I think Wells is trying as best he can to work within a system that has been imposed on him but that he no longer believes in.  I hadn't realized that this problem predated the Lockdown Interregnum.

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  3. Wow.  Pre-Lockdown Star Interregnum.

    I wish I knew about that back during the debate here after the reinstatenent of the Star System, so I could have used it to  prove I was right (as subsequent events showed).

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