Got some odd looks...

[GC]

Recently the wife and I went out for a steak in a semi-swanky restaurant in the St. Louis area. The issue steak knife was as dull as the butter knife that was brought with the bread. No problem, I whipped out the Spyderco Wegner Jr. and made short work of the steak. Shaving sharp ATS-34 works quite well. The old lady sitting across from us looked at me as if I were from another planet. The gentleman with her avoided eye contact. The waitress noticed the Spyderco when she stopped by to check drinks and her speech was halting and brief afterward. Guess there aren’t many men that dine there…

 

[pahntr760]

Too many sissy Lala dudes out there. Most folks haven't a clue what a decent pocket knife is, let alone carry one.

Heck, even my wife carries a Buck USA or Case XX everyday. They're 'cute' though. A normal prerequisite.

 

[BlackDog1]

My bride has been carrying a "cute" little XX Case since the mid 70's too,
Glad you "manned up" a restaurant that thought it was "man enough" to serve a steak dinner with a knife so dull that it couldn't draw blood on a soft cube of butter....... another case of intellectual high treason by my reckoning.

Bob

 

[the noobie]

I live in a fraternity and between 40 of us we have 3 steak knives that are about sharp enough to cut hot butter. Butter knives cut steak better. They all looked at me funny when I whipped my pocket knife out and cut my steak. Its now a norm in the house.

Got so used to it that when I was home for christmas, to help my parents move into their new house, we had steak for dinner. We couldnt find steak knives. So I pulled out my pocket knife. My mom and brother called me disgusting (for using a dirty knife??

) and my dad just laughed.

I see nothing wrong with this behavior but it must not be socially acceptable.

 

[RePete]

Originally Posted By: the noobie My mom and brother called me disgusting (for using a dirty knife??

It's not dirty if ya lick it clean before you stick it back in your pocket

Sorry you got the stink eye GC. People sure are up tight these days.
No wonder I walk around shaking my head and muttering to myself the one or two days a month I have to go in amoungst em.

 

[OldTurtle]

The wife and I used to swing into a biker bar that, on the weekends, served up a 16oz Porterhouse steak at a really good price and quality cut of meat but served them with plastic knives and forks due to customers having stolen all their good steak knives and the health department zinging them for improper dish washing practices with their silverware...

The second time we went, I took along a really nice "hunter' that Rainshadow had made for me and whipped it out to work on the steak...The waitress came by to check on beer orders, looked at the knife and said, "Works for me,,wish more would bring their own...I'd have less complaints."

 

[GC]

Originally Posted By: RePete...Sorry you got the stink eye GC.

You know, it didn't bother me in the least.

 

[tripod3]

amazes me to hear it. many of the snobs now have tats n piercing in the shade while they judge. Yet just cant appreciate good steel to feed yourself.

 

[palmettopredator]

Originally Posted By: the noobie I live in a fraternity and between 40 of us we have 3 steak knives that are about sharp enough to cut hot butter. Butter knives cut steak better. They all looked at me funny when I whipped my pocket knife out and cut my steak. Its now a norm in the house.

Our house was the same way. Our cook thought it was funny and the girlfriends didn't mind.

 

[223Pete]

This is good little thread. I've used my Gerber Covert Auto to cut steak and pizza too. I love getting those looks from people. It makes my dining experience so much better! I can't imagine trying to cut meat with a plastic knife.

 

[2muchgun]

Well since my "lunchbox knife" rusted out on me, and I tossed it (it was a $5 knife I put mulberry scales on), I have been cutting up steak and such at work for weeks with whatever EDC I have had on my side. Izula, Kershaw Random Task, whatever. A knife is a knife.

I have aso been carrying a cheap framelock Tanto blade around (1084 steel I think) that I actually like. I think it is a Benchmade H&K copy.

I now need to select a new "lunchbox knife". One I just throw in my box/cooler, and leave there. I was gonna go with an Opinel that I blackened the blade on. I need to blacken the rest of it first though, or it will surely rust quickly in my cooler. Either that, or I will have to find something stainless that I don't care too much about.......