Rules for eating meat

A friend of mine posted one of his favourite West Wing quotes on Facebook earlier today:

Toby: I’ll have a New York Steak and a Ginger Ale
Waiter: How would you like -
Toby: Just cook it.

FWIW, I’ve never seen the West Wing, but everyone keeps telling me that I’d like it, so someday Amy and I will buy the DVDs and then we’ll watch it all, and we’ll finally catch up to the cultural zeitgeist, a few years late.

But it reminded me of this plaque, which Warren Ellis sells:

Now, I like a good medium-rare, honestly, but my sister, she can’t stand any pink at all. Even if a hint of pink juice leaks out from her crispy black steak, it’s back to the barbecue. I think she would appreciate the sentiment behind this plaque (it’s also an apron, for sale at Cafepress) — if it said “woman” perhaps.