> a T-bone steak...We don't seem to have them in the UK

> We do, David, just they're not tremendously common (sirloin tends to be the cut of choice, followed by rump as the cheapo option, with fillet for very special occasions).


Ah - whatever happened to the t-bone steak? I remember them well, a candle-lit dinner at the Berni Inn, the music (Demis Roussos for preference), a bottle of Mateus Rose and a t-bone with foil-wrapped baked potato and lashings of butter. Well, that would have been my father's view of heaven in the seventies. Maybe you're just too cool David?

Here's some UK seventies nostalgia for those old enough to remember:
http://tv.cream.org/thecore/adbooze.htm

I think the the t-bone simply went out of fashion with the seventies style steak house (until it was banned for a while as part of the beef-on-the bone stuff in the midst of BSE) or had too many calories (to be replaced by calorie loaded chicken tikka masala) or priced itself out of the market (although fillet steak is still on the menu). I dunno.

Here's a guide to British cuts of beef (veggies, don't look) for the more serious minded
http://www.hwatson.force9.co.uk/magazine/2000/05-2000/beef.htm