What happened to the yuppies being vegans?
I was hungry for oxtail stew. I nearly swallowed my upppers to find the cost of ox tail was over $5.50/lb. These used to be a throw away part of the steer - grandma’s choice when times were hard enough that you couldn’t afford hamburger. Same with beef liver. Everything right down to the moo is pricey as hell.
Back in college in the 80’s it was cheaper buy a cryovac roll of flank steak and grill fajitas than it was to buy hamburger meat and hot dogs for a cookout. Then the bandwagon riders discovered it and the price soared higher than ribeye in less than a year. That trend was later supplanted by “Angus” beef (simply from a predominately black cow), which itself was supplanted by “Wagyu” (which is a little meat with excess fat).