On 1/9/2018 12:13 PM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Jan 2018 09:33:45 -0400, wrote:
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>> I am off to the grocery store presently and now I absolutely have to
>> have some oxtail! I don't care if people in NA don't eat it, when we
>> came here 50 years ago they didn't and the butcher would just give you
>> some, same with nice marrow soup bones, now they are an item and
>> expensive 
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> I have recipes from my mother that start with 'ask the butcher for a
> nice soup bone.'
> Janet US
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Those old recipes are so much fun! I never got free soup bones.
I'm
sure my mother and grandmother did. These days if you want soup bones
you have to pay for them and they aren't cheap. There are restaurants
in NYC that pretty much only sell bone broth. Rather than a hot cup of
coffee or tea, people are buying cups of hot broth. What affect will
this "trend" have on the price of soup bones?
"Soup bones" already cost more than I want to pay for them. Better to
buy a cut of beef *with* bones and save those for stock/broth.
Jill