Silicon Valley Bros Are Adopting Charlie Kelly’s Milk Steak Meal
Charlie Kelly’s favorite meal of milk steak boiled hard over jelly beans failed to resonate with the ladies on Match.com, but it’s doing numbers among Bay Area tech dudes.
Milk steak’s newfound embrace as a start-up superfood began on Monday, when software company founder Sam Trautwein headed to Twitter to flaunt a meal he recently enjoyed at NorCal’s famed House of Prime Rib. “POV: you’re the last man of taste in San Francisco,” the self-described “Y Combinator alum” captioned his photo depicting the remains of an exceptionally rare steak and a straw-clad glass of milk.
Instead of receiving kudos from the keto crowd, Trautwein’s post was met with several people wondering whether his “taste” just so happened to be dictated by It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s resident Rat King. “It’s fascinating how much everything you guys do just lands you right back to being a stone’s throw away from being Charlie from IASIP,” one fan wrote alongside a GIF of Charlie ordering his milky delicacy at the swanky Guigino’s Italian Restaurant.
More Charlie Kelly loyalists reposted milk steak-themed GIFs and clips from Season Five’s “The Waitress Is Getting Married,” with one turning their speculation toward Trautwein’s dessert order. “Did he get the jelly beans on the side?” they joked.
Trautwein has yet to confirm whether he went all the way with his Charlie-inspired steakhouse meal, but if the exec ever finds himself on the East Coast, he’d be right at home at Paddy’s Pub.
