I hear you. I’ve been creating a lot of meals with beef shank, pork hocks, ham hocks, neck bones and other cheaper meats. My dad was a Cracker and cooked that way, so no one minds these delicious meals: pork hocks and sauerkraut, pork neckbones and peppery rice, ham hocks and cabbage or beans, chicken wings with dumplings or noodles, etc., you get the drift
These are all delicious foods. But in my America, we had the choice of great cuts of beef as well as the delicious but cheap cuts.
Even extremely expensive, good quality chicken breasts are unavoidable - although I bite the bullet and buy Kosher.
LOTS of pork in this house, and chicken. Having grilled teriyaki chicken breasts tonight. Your pork hocks and sauerkraut made my mouth water. I LOVE sauerkraut, but it HATES me at 3 in the morning. :D