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Burnt on the outside and raw on the inside


Hello all - this one's a long shot, but sometimes long shots pay off.

I'm looking for an old movie, and all I have is one line of dialogue - the one quoted in the title.

This is a line my father always liked to quote. When I asked him about it, he said he saw it in an old movie, but that's all he remembered. A waitress asks a man how he wants his steak, and he says "Burnt on the outside and raw on the inside." Except he says it in a thick Brooklyn accent, so it comes out "Boint on the outside and roar on the inside" - which is how my Dad always used to say it.

I'm pretty sure this was a movie he saw before I was born. He was born in 1932, and I was born in 1955, so the timeframe is probably late '30s to early '50s.

Yeah, this is a real exercise in obscurity. Does it ring a bell with anyone?

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Thats how i want my steak!
why do they never offer crispy outside , less so inside?

Sorry , no idea on the movie though .

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It wasn't a thick Brooklyn accent but there was an episode of The Cosby Show (Season 5, Episode 4) where Cliff and Claire go to dinner at Sandra and Elvin's run down low-rent apartment. Cliff is eating the potatoes that they made and says that exact line "Burnt on the outside" and Elvin starts protesting that they're crispy on the outside and then Cliff bites into one and says "And raw on the inside". Sounds like your dad was probably saying this prior to the Cosby Show even being a thing but the dialogue is essentially the same.

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