“... has cut back on beef consumption..”
Yes. Looking in the freezer is just sad. Two shelves used to be devoted to beef, one to chicken and one to pork. Today, it’s one shelf for chicken stock, one for chicken, one for pork and one for whatever meat. I’m desperately holding onto the last package of “reduced soon to expire” ground beef bought about 10 months ago and three small beef roasts from a sale. That’s it for beef. Thankfully, we have some free venison so that has made up for not having beef - do NOT substitute it for beef tacos. People used to spend time looking over the meat prices before putting a package in their grocery cart but now days, they grab what they want without a glance at the price. Yeah, weird but guess it is that they have given up and don’t want to see the price.
Restocked a little tuna last week when it was on sale. It wasn’t on sale last Easter so it’s been two years since I’ve bought any. No sale this week but crossing fingers for next week. Only able to get 21 cans as that’s all they had. Drain out the 50% that’s water (here, kitty kitty!)and it was still expensive coming to $5.33/lb for canned store brand tuna.
Chicken is the new beef and roadkill is the new chicken. Welcome to Obamaville!