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Vent: A guy at the market in Boise asked me to carve his pork chop into a dinosaur
He was totally serious, holding up a picture on his phone of a T-Rex shaped steak. I was at my stall last Saturday, just breaking down a side of pork. I told him I could butterfly it for him, but a detailed shape would ruin the cook and waste meat. He got kinda huffy and said, 'But the kids would love it,' and walked off. Anyone else get these wild custom requests that just aren't practical for the cut?
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walker.rowan1mo ago
See this all the time now, this weird idea that every single thing has to be a custom event. It's not just a pork chop, it's a performance. The guy wasn't buying meat, he was buying a memory, and he got mad you wouldn't make it for him. It turns a simple job into a circus where you're the bad guy for saying no. Feels like people want a personal chef experience at a market stall price, and they forget they're asking someone to carve art into dinner.
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zara_hunt2mo ago
Gotta meet people halfway sometimes. A simple dinosaur outline with the knife isn't that hard. Makes a memory for the kids.
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sam_rivera2mo ago
Exactly. It's not about being a pro chef, it's about putting in that tiny bit of extra effort. My kids still talk about the time I made a pancake that looked like a lopsided turtle. Those little surprises are what they remember years later, not the perfect meal. It shows you were thinking about them.
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