Nobody knows exactly how long ago a marbled and tender short heap without a leg in the United States became known as a New York comic. However, everyone agrees that the nomenclature was not in the least controversial until last Friday, when Lieutenant Gov. Then Patrick van Texas presented a new name: The Texas Strip.
Note that Texas leads the nation in cattle heads, Mr. Patrick announced in a position that he worked with the Senate with the Senate on a resolution that would officially reverse the cut.
Mr. Patrick was clearly in his position that he hoped that the name -oriented name would give a boost to the cattle farmers of his state. At the same time, the way in which he framed the issue was more than a touch of red -life politics.
“Liberal New York should not get the honor for our hard -working farmers,” he wrote.
Meatpackers and Steakhouses in New York do not seem to be relaxed to follow Texas' leadership.
“Oh my God, it's so ridiculous,” said Harry Sinanaj, president of Ben & Jack's Steakhouse in East 44th Street. “Even if they change it, I go behind it as the New York strip.”
The exact origin of the term is unclear, but it is often bound by that of Delmonico, founded in 1827 and considered the first restaurant in the United States. The cut that is known as a Delmonico steak may have ever referred to a strip steak, although it is used on the current menu to mean a rib eye. In any case, the cut is caught around the city.
“I don't think there is room for politics,” said Dennis Turcinovic, the owner and managing partner of the hospitality group of Delmonico. “It's American culinary history.”
Mr. Patrick is not the first politician who tries a rebranding of a popular food item. Before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, cafeterias in the House of Representatives started selling 'Freedom Fries' to protest against the opposition of France against an attack. Anti-German sentiment during the First World War led to “Liberty Cabbage” for sauerkraut. Neither of the name has survived his political moment.
The term New York Strip is so well established that it is anchored in “The Meat Buyer's Guide”, a long -standing industrial Bible that is being exercised by the Meat Institute, a trade group based on Washington. The book mentions “Lomo, Strip Loin (New York), Deshuesado” as synonyms for the Strip Loin without leg.
“When you call restaurants on the phone and say,” Give me a strip in New York, “I know they mean the strip of without legs,” said Mark Solasz, vice -president of master lectures, a wholesaler in the Bronx.
“Maybe the Texans will change the Texas strip, but I don't think New York will change,” said Mr. Solasz. “I don't think it will cross the border.”
Marc and Greg Sherry, who have the longest -running steakhouse in the city, the old home on Ninth Avenue, are so proud of the cut that they call the 'Sherry Brothers 16 Oz'. New York Prime Sirloin ”on their menu.
“I think the Lieutenant -Governor is looking for what PR, but a steak in New York is a steak in New York,” said Greg Sherry.
Mr. Sinanaj, who was raised in Montenegro when Yugoslavia was still under communist rule, remembered that his mother told him about a man in their village who went to prison for criticizing the government after complaining that a bread he had bought was old. A partisan twist in the name of a steak rubs him in the wrong direction, he said.
“In my personal opinion it is ridiculous to call it liberal or conservative,” he said. “The stomach of the people has nothing to do with politics.”
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