In article
>
,
Cindy Fuller > wrote:

> In article >,
> Melba's Jammin' > wrote:
>
> > In article >,
> > Christine Dabney > wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 23:14:48 -0400, "Nancy Young"
> > > > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > >Interesting. I figured people would just toss them on the
> > > >compost pile.
> > > >
> > > >nancy
> > >
> > > Not us southerners... We cook a lot of things that people throw away,
> > > and make delicacies of them, that some folks pay a lot of money to
> > > eat....
> > >
> > > Christine
> >
> > Yeah, and then pretty soon we're ALL paying a lot of money for them.
> > The price of chicken wings is goofy. All it needs is someone with some
> > chutzpah to promote humble food as "the latest trend" and prices double.
>
> That's what happened with skirt steak. It used to be one of the
> cheapest cuts around until the fajita craze hit.

And flank steak. I never liked it that well, but at least it was cheap.
Hamburger used to be cheap. Somebody else mentioned tritip. We went to
Costco this morning. Meat prices were unbelievable, and some of this
was USDA Prime! But tritip was US$4.99 a pound.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA