I’m not normally a chicken wing eater, but I hear about others liking them. Thought I’d get some at the store the other day, but they were $3.99 a pound while drumsticks were only $1.99 a pound.
For you chicken wing enthusiasts - why would chicken wings be worth the $2 more a pound? What are you doing with them? Talk me out of the drumsticks I bought instead.
They used to be thrown away or used for stock, poor people turned them into trendy food and now it’s expensive. Same with Osso bucco.
Damned poor people and their master plan of trend setting. shakes fist
Really though, poor people buy what they can afford and do what they can to make it delicious. Think the same thing happened with bacon and lobster.
I don’t think they planned on making it trendy, but cheap tasty food sure has a way of getting popular.
I recall reading that lobster used to only be deemed fit enough food for prisoners.
And lamb shanks! Used to be so cheap. Not any more.
I had my first taste at a dive bar in 1989. 5 cents apiece!