Okay This Makes Two New Buzzwords

I was in a department meeting when a visiting speaker said, “I mean, that’s what’s you expect. It’s table steaks.”

Then she went on, but I was still hung up in this new phrase. Table steaks? Like ... table wine? Kind of a lower-grade steak you get a restaurant, not a fine steak/wine, but a table steak/wine?

And OF COURSE I had to go into the department group chat and say, “Did she just say table steaks? What does that mean?”

Of course, it’s some poker reference. Table stakes. I suppose it’s the expected ante or something? I don’t know. All I know is that add this to the Oregon Trail references and 1) I don’t know what anyone is saying at work anymore and 2) I have heard it used twice now in two days.

I’m going to quietly post this photo in the chat every time I hear it from now on.

Comments

[KC]

I approve of your table steaks.

Also, whenever anyone says something is Normal and Assumed, just like in poker, I am deeply suspicious of what "normal" is being pushed...

[TheQueen]

KC - I believe it was a IPhone version of any software.

[KC]

Aha.

(still suspicious.)

[Allison McCaskill]

This makes me think of my book club friend whose husband has quite a lot of wine and she has to make sure to ask before she comes to make sure she only takes "book club wine" (which, fair enough, we're basically philistines)

[TheQueen]

KC - no, there should be an iPhone version of everything nowadays.
Alison - harsh! Was there a time she didn’t ask and you drank $400 worth of wine? I think everyone should follow the Cana wedding guidelines: first glass should be the $400 bottle and then you get the book club wine.