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Season 5 - Episode 51 - How do you like YOUR burger cooked? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  How do you like your burger done well?
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  I am a person that likes my burger done well and that
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  consistently presents a problem for people.
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  Just like if I like order steak, I like it cooked well and I know
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  there are people out there who are just crying hearing me say
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  that, but it's the way I like it.
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  I can't stand the idea of seeing the blood on the plate.
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  I don't want to bite into it. I don't want to see it.
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  I don't want to feel it. It gives me the willies.
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  Now I am very like I have been a vegetarian before.
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  I tried it for a really long time and I just, my body did not
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  feel good not eating meat. So I do eat meat and I try to
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  keep it as clean as I can and I eat it as infrequently, like
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  it's not a regular thing for me. However, when I do, I want it
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  well done. So this is the story of ordering
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  well done meat. I will go somewhere and I will
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  say can I have it well done? And I get it and it's not well
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  done. Whether it's a burger, again,
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  the only way it ever works is a smash burger because they just
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  cooked them all well done. And everybody seems to be OK
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  with that. But when you go to a place that
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  has bigger, thicker burgers and you order them, you know, it's
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  very hard to get them. And honestly, a burger is very
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  much a comfort meal for me from like, when I was a kid, I ate a
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  lot of them and I loved them. Burgers and onion rings were a
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  regular thing in my family. And you know, it just brings
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  back the good memories, makes you feel good and you want it
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  the way you had it. Well, Fast forward, this becomes
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  an issue because no matter where I go and what I do, it doesn't
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  come out right and I have to send it back.
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  So whenever I say, oh, I'd like to have something, you can just
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  see the look on my family's face like, oh, no, it's not going to
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  come out right. And I just feel like that is
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  such a very hard, it's a hard road for me to walk because if I
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  really want something and I know it's going to make other people
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  uncomfortable just by me ordering it because they know
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  it's not going to come out right.
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  Should I have to change what I'm ordering for everyone to feel
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  comfortable, not get what I want?
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  And then even explain to the to the waitress when they come to
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  the table, the waiter or waitress, I would like this
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  cooked well. I know the risks.
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  I want my meat cooked well. And then they say sure, no
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  problem. And it comes out and it's not
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  well. Or I will say, can you please
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  butterfly the steak And then it comes out and it's not well.
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  And this whole thing is coming up right now because last night
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  I, you know, again, I, we're going to have my son wanted to
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  have burgers on the grill and going to cook them.
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  And the last time we did this, my burger came out and my mark
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  insisted that it was cooked well, like he but he didn't
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  check it. And then he sent it to my plate
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  and as soon as I picked it up, it was sitting in a puddle of
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  blood. And I said this isn't cooked
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  well. And he said it was on there
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  forever. And he is someone that eats his
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  meat very, very on the, you know, medium rare side.
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  And I am just not that person. And it, and it, I can say, I can
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  see how you know it. And it's not that it annoys him,
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  but it annoys him because he'll say, you know, if you just tried
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  it this way, da, da, da. And I have forever, forever had
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  this issue where people have told me you should try it this
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  way, you should do it this way. This is what you should do.
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  And I just don't want to. I don't want to.
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  I'm not going to change my mind and I want it the way I want it.
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  So the question becomes, am I being stubborn or am I being
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  requestful and asking for what I want and wondering why other
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  people won't get it to me. It's a very deep question
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  because I as customer service client care person that I am and
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  dealing with everybody all the time, I am forever looking at
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  how I can make it better for people around me doing the
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  things that I can do to help them when they can't get
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  something. If a client and I are working on
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  something and they're not able to write something up that they
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  need for themselves, they can't get the gist of it.
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  It's not quite hitting. They need a logo, they need
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  something. I jump in and help them because
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  I know where they are in their head.
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  And even if I don't like it, I'm going to do it because I know
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  that's going to make a difference.
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  I know that's going to help them.
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  I'll say, all right, here it is. I got this far.
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  They'll say, do you like it? And I'll say, I mean, it's not
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  my style, but I know it's what you're looking for and I'm more
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  than happy to provide that. But what happens when people
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  start telling you that you're wrong for how you like it?
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  What, what happens in our head? What happens to how we feel
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  about that? So this is a big question to
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  ponder because for every person, it's different.
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  For me, I, you know, I'm just used to it at this point and I
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  know what I'm up against. And I've accepted that this is
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  this is society's way of, you know, ordering meat, but it's
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  not my way of ordering meat. So I'm not going to allow myself
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  to get hung up in those crazy dialogues about feeling shame
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  because I don't order meat the way other people order meat.
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  I'm going to do it the way I want to.
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  And I'm not going to allow someone else to infiltrate my
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  brain and make me feel less than because I don't order something
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  the way they do. But what I'm asking you to look
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  for is where does that show up for you?
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  Where are other things that you know people are thinking
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  something about or telling you something about, but you know
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  it's right for you. And you have to decide, do I
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  want to acquiesce or do I want to hold the line?
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  And when it comes to the burger, I'm holding the line.
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  We can always learn something about ourselves.
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  So how do you order your burger? I hope you guys have a blessed
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  day and I'll see you tomorrow. Bye.