Lobster went from prison food to luxury flex
by Kapanash
Lobster went from prison food to luxury flex
by Kapanash
19 Comments
Crazy how something can go from barely food to fine dining status just because of perception and demand
baloney will be luxury
The power of marketing.
Turns out properly seasoning food can work wonders.
Proof that marketing can literally change everything.
*Ancient caveman bites head off lobster*
Id still consider it prison food. Its just long crab.
Same goes with eels, not as expensive tho
Time can change everything value
Probably bc the commoners weren’t served fresh lobster. Old lobster tastes disgusting.
So they used to let the lobsters die and the meat would get rotten super fast and that’s why the fed it to them
it was because they included shell and all. I love crab legs but I would hate if I had to eat it as a paste with shell
In the Western world.
It has been a cuisine in other parts of the world for millennia.
The prisoners in 1700s: “please dont torture us by feeding us lobster. Its the worst imaginable punishment….”
They would grind up the whole lobster and feed it to prisoners so it’s not the same how we eat it now
The same with caviar. It was a peasant food until the rich decided it was not
As someone that hates seafood this is so validating
Just like clams. They are the sewage filter of the ocean, why would you like to eat that? Just because it’s (been) hard to get by far inland?
Still the former for me. I can’t stand shellfish.
Not even allergic or anything, it’s just that (aside from Squid and Octopus, which Idk why they’re classifed as “shellfish” in the first place). I hate the taste of em.