Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Oxtail has gotten ridiculously expensive. It used to be offal that no one wanted in the US, so my mom was able to get a big pack for a few dollars (maybe less). Now it's considered gourmet and gotten hugely expenisve, at least $4-5 per pound.
We were poor growing up, and my mother cooked a lot of inexpensive foods.....giblets, tongue, trotters (pigs' feet).
Now that stuff is expensive as hell. I don't eat red meat any more but I took a look at the prices and couldn't belive my eyes.
We were poor growing up, and my mother cooked a lot of inexpensive foods.....giblets, tongue, trotters (pigs' feet).
Now that stuff is expensive as hell. I don't eat red meat any more but I took a look at the prices and couldn't belive my eyes.
Pig's feet! It's a standard dish in Korean cooking, and my mom used to get it really cheap at American supermarkets. NOt anymore...
Pig's feet! It's a standard dish in Korean cooking, and my mom used to get it really cheap at American supermarkets. NOt anymore...
You're Korean, Starlily? One thing I had always wanted to try is the Beef Tendon at the local Korean BBQ joint. Is it any good?
The food there is usually very good, but the experience is.....challenging. The family doesn't speak a lick of French or English, and you point at the picture of the food you want. They can't tell you what's in it, and you just hope for the best.
I seriously doubt chicken was ever more expensive than beef.
( let alone "MUCH" more expensive )
Your source ?
My mom and several other female relatives preparing meals in the 1940s and 1950s confirmed what I read in a historical cookbook called Fashionable Food by Sylvia Lovegren. Apparently, when meat was being rationed for WW2, farmers bred a lot of beef to send over to Our Boys Over There -- to the point at which chicken farming was almost squeezed out. Only if you had your own flock of chickens could you afford to eat them. The best cuts of beef went Over There and the rest stayed on the home front -- my mom ate a lot of tongue sandwiches back in the day.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
