Smash the barbarians! It's not about being cosmopolitan or elitist. It's about eating your steak like a sane, normal human being. The archetypical Texas everyman Hank Hill understood this perfectly well:
...Not a single Hank Hill quote? Sad!
If you order a $60 steak only to have it burnt to a puck and then slather it with ketchup, you simply don't know what you're doing, and no amount of money in the world can change that. And if you don't know that, one can hazard there's a lot of other things you don't know how to do properly, or rather-less-than-subtle details you're incapable of picking up on.
A wise(r) man who insists upon burning his meat would at least have the sense not to waste a decent cut and use, I don't know, a chuck steak.
