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Default What do you cook when you have no $

Janet Wilder wrote:
> cshenk wrote:
>> "Billy" wrote
>>
>>> "cshenk" wrote:

>>
>>>> the cheapest meat in Sasebo
>>>> Japan.
>>> How many on RFC live there? Just an East Tennessee native and our
>>> cheapest meat might be possum.

>>
>> Grin, you'd be suprised! One of the others said cheap dish used
>> lamb. Not likely to have been living in the USA. This is a global
>> community, not all are USA (or Canada) folks. Another cheap meat in
>> Japan was shrimp.

>
> I was the one who used one lamb shank. Lamb shank at that time (early
> 1980's) was cheap meat. I was living in New Jersey, which, I believe
> was still part of the US at the time <vbg>


Lamb shanks are still cheap compared to some things I can't believe the
price of chuck roast these days. $6.99/lb last week. What?!

Jill