ANSWERS: 3
  • Where I come from, we call that dish "Rainbow Beef", a take on the much more desirable dish "rainbow trout". I don't know either, but it seems to happen at banquets and weddings a lot, where meat sits and waits before being eaten. It won't hurt you, just embarass the host.
  • Isn't that just the grease shining?
  • Actually no one is really 100% sure about this, but the most reasonable answer is that it happens with meats that are cut with an incredibly sharp knife or slicer. The blade cuts the meat fiber so perfectly even that it creates that sheen. Sort of like when water on a lake is so still that you can see rainbows and reflections in it.

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