NYC steakhouses beef with Texas over push to rename the New York strip: Remember the Alamo

New Yorkers are searing mad over an absurd bid by Texas to rename the New York strip steak.The beef between the two states was heating up Monday, with New York meat purveyors getting rubbed the wrong way by the Lone Star State’s proposal to call the steakhouse-favorite beef cut the “Texas strip.” “Remember the Alamo? What happens to the Alamo will happen to [Texas Lt.Gov.] Dan Patrick if he messes with our steak,” a fired-up Todd Shapiro, owner of War Room steakhouse in Albany told The Post in reference to the Texas lieutenant governor’s meat-headed move.“I plan on filing a million-dollar lawsuit against the state of Texas if they want to take the New York strip off my menu,” Shapiro said, arguing the proposal, if approved, could have an economic impact since the strip is the restaurant’s top seller.“You hear ‘don’t mess with Texas’? Well, don’t mess with New York.

I’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse,” he said, channeling Don Corleone from “The Godfather.”Alan Rosen, owner of Junior’s Restaurant in Brooklyn, also stepped in to defend the longstanding name for the prime cut of beef — and to rib the lieutenant governor for his impertinence.“This guy should find something else to do with his free time — we have more pressing issues in our country.Are we going to call New York cheesecake Athens cheesecake now?” Rosen said in a reference to the dessert’s origins in Ancient Greece.“We have a Texas — I mean New York strip steak at our Las Vegas location.

New York has a better ring to it,” he quipped.The Big Apple-centric name for the flavorful cut of beef from a cow’s short loin, generically called simply strip steak, dates back nearly 200 years to Delmonico’s, a classic New York City steakhouse that first opened its doors in 1837.The legend goes Delmonico’s dubbed their strip steak the “New York strip” on their menu and the name took off from there, eventually becoming nearly synonymous with the cut, ...