And only became associated with luxury due to the insane costs of producing and shipping them at scale. Well, for the seafood anyways.

Pizza

"Tricksy little scrooges, they stole it from us."

Mussels, oysters and lobster (prawns as well) really pisses me off. Lobster costing like $30-40 a fucking tail is absolutely insane. They are pretty much the rabbits or rats of the ocean.

Mussels, at least, are still fairly cheap. For now.

Checks out, "pasta alla puttanesca" literally translates to "whore-style pasta"

According to a websearch that's an oft repeated but dubious origin story

https://en.wikipedia.org/...

does that has a name? or can we call it food gentrification?

I mean big mac is $9 in the US lol, sandwiches just dont get much cheaper than that here nowadays 😭

It's because of the labor and cost of goods.

Ingredients to make banh mi are very cheap but workers in the US are paid more for transportation, making the food and the business operating(lights, has, etc) so now the price rise to fit the cost.

Also some items are priced higher to cover more expensive ingredients. Let's say you are doing beef banh mi, that's usually scrap beef from something, let's say some sirloin scraps, your steak on the menu should probably be like $40 but if you sell a ton of banh mi you can cut that price down to like $30-$35.

Though it was weird that bahn exists in the US when we have sub places in the US. Never ordered a bahn mi when pho is on the menu, but they look like small subs

Because who would waste good caviar on you?

My mom would.

Or... rich people only like expensive food because it is expensive, not because it tastes good.

They want to flaunt their wealth when having visitors, so they only buy the rarest of ingredients and demand a lot of work to put into it in order to call them delicacies.

If the ingredients really would be of high quality, they wouldn't need a lot of preparation. The ingredients would speak for themselves.

Price is considered in their taste.

Expensive meals have the value mostly in more presentation for less amount.

who would waste good caviar on you? And because taste degrades so steeply with price

I'm not sure caviar is the best example here. A lot of people just don't like fish eggs, which is fine. But tons of other people eat fish eggs that aren't caviar, like salmon eggs, which are a common sushi ingredient and relatively cheap. Fish eggs definitely don't need to be sturgeon caviar to taste good, even if most people don't like them in general.

But unless you're in Japan, you're probably a somewhat rich westerner if you're eating any kind of fish eggs regularly, so maybe rich people just tend to have more access to things that would expand their palates.

Excuse me, it's called a sensory experience thank you very much!

And properly made Nigerian Jollof rice.

They just made up an "ancient" Roman version of pizza??

Looks awesome but Its hard for me to find 3 types of wheat. is there a way to make it with normal wheat.

Soljanka for the fucking win

...dancing dishes?

Half of mine predate the DDR

I am starting to think the concepts of Asia being some socialist utopia

What concepts?

You think they invented that food culture to fit the society? Asian food culture evolved over centuries, it wasn't "designed." Rice was an established staple crop in Asia long before they were discussing modern governmental philosophies. It happens to fit your description of cheap and plentiful food, but it wasn't "designed" to be that, it evolved to be that.

There are concepts of Asia being a socialist utopia?

Who told you all of asia is a monolith? They sound racist.

Oh a new CCP shill to add to my blocklist