Originally Posted by
JBord
IIRC, you're from the Chicago area? Growing up in the Midwest as well, I can confirm we didn't know about flank steak, skirt steak, etc. One of my uncles was a dairy farmer and my parents would get a half a cow (processed of course) each year for pennies on the dollar, at cost. I guarantee you that among the many T-bones and Sirloins in our freezer, there was never a flank. Now it's one of my favorite cuts. Maybe back then it was considered scrap meat, I don't know.
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I'm from Rockford (as my dad always said, "a good place to be
from" - and it is more true now than ever) and never heard of skirt steak either until I moved to Chicago and saw it on a menu and nearly swooned when I tasted it.
