sf wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 2009 18:54:24 -0700, "Bob Terwilliger"
> > wrote:
>
>> sf wrote:
>>
>>> I read somewhere that real london broil is a piece of sirloin (or
>>> whatever they said) cooked between two pieces of cheaper meat.
>>
>> I think you're confusing London broil with chateaubriand.
>>
> Ah, yes! The memory chips are firing now.... you are absolutely
> correct sir. However, I *have* actually eaten a cut of meat called
> London Broil (in my yoot) and it wasn't flank steak - my mother would
> not have stooped that low. She hated anything that shrieked
> depression era. Can't say I've seen the term attached to a piece of
> meat in decades though. I think it might have something to do with
> truth in labeling here in California.

Although the term London broil is printed on packaged of some
kind of sirloin, at least in my area, I have learned over the years
that flank steak is the traditional London broil.

nancy