druganaut: snommelp: becausedragonage: snommelp: pochowek: every culture has a little dish that...

druganaut:

snommelp:

becausedragonage:

snommelp:

pochowek:

every culture has a little dish that just translates to “we threw everything into that fucking pot we’re poor”

Funny enough, shrimp and grits used to be that dish, and then folks who live far from the ocean decided that shrimp was a delicacy and should be expensive and now shrimp and grits isn’t that dish any more.

Same with lobsters here. They used to be poor people’s food. People would till them into the soil for fertilizer. Not anymore.

Yup. Lobster used to be considered just a half a step above cockroaches. People facing execution would request as their last meal “anything but f***ing lobster.” But it cost money to get it inland, and rich people who didn’t live on the shore decided that it must be fancy because of the cost, and now even people living in historic lobster-fishing areas can’t always afford it.

Capitalism Ruined Good Food: A MasterPost.