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Foods that are for poor people in their country of origin suddenly spike in price when served in richer countries. Banh mi is like a dollar in Saigon but almost 9 in the US.
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.
Then the rich people appropriate the dishes of the workers and make them unaffordable. The wealthy produce very little of their own cuisine just as they produce very little of their own labor.
Oxtails have entered the chat.
Tbh that’s exactly what I was thinking of as well, for generations it has been a stable of minority communities and workers but is slowly being turned fancy. I don’t want expensive oxtail, I want real authentic oxtail from a local Dominican restaurant.
There was a Chad/Virgin meme about Mexican restaurants.
An expensive Mexican restaurant has 20 kinds of expensive tequila and charges $50.00 for three tacos.
An authentic place has two kinds of beer and you can’t finish $50.00 worth of food by yourself.
I seriously miss oxtail. You can barely find it at any price anymore.
Hopefully we poors will create a new dish out of them.
Remember when cooking fatty meats cook low and slow to properly render out the fat.
For tea, that is Genmaicha, which is a green tea with roasted rice added in as a filler. Tastes delicious and is pretty cheap!
Peasant food is the best food. Rich people’s food is stupid with all those little portions, and foam.
“This food tastes like garbage!”
“What did you expect? Rich people eat the garbage parts of the food.”
“Well I ate garbage yesterday and it didn’t cost me $300! Good day, sir!”
On a related note, Ethiopians make some delicious food. Everyone should at least try doro wat sometime.
And properly made Nigerian Jollof rice.
History of bread
Wait until you hear about Pinsa
They just made up an “ancient” Roman version of pizza??
In its basic version it’s actually a flat bread like a focaccia, I’ve gotten used to keeping a pair of supermarket-sold ones in the fridge, if one day I don’t have time to buy fresh bread I chuck one of those in the oven, no need to turn it into a pizza.
Looks awesome but Its hard for me to find 3 types of wheat. is there a way to make it with normal wheat.
In your kitchen you can do whatever you want
Every DDR dish is superior
Half of mine predate the DDR
…dancing dishes?
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who could only see that as Dance Dance Revolution, haha.
I think they’re talking about East Germany, though - aka the German Democratic Republic/GDR aka DDR in German. Somebody correct me if I’m wrong, though.
What is rich people food? That also tastes good?
Hallaca (Venezuelan tamal)
Clever recipes have been my recent go to a lot lately.
I am starting to think the concepts of Asia being some socialist utopia comes partially from them having more simple cheap and mass made food items designed to feed lots of people for less resources. Food came first, governing style after.
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.
Right…
Obviously it was bred over generations but that is somewhat by design even slow and not always straight forward. And the methods of preparation have changed to allow for it to be used in lots of ways. My point was that the food shaped the culture because of its usefulness and let it be less restrictive. Why does it feel like everyone read this backwards?
I am starting to think the concepts of Asia being some socialist utopia
What concepts?
You ever see those comments from people who wish they lived somewhere else and idealize another country?
There are concepts of Asia being a socialist utopia?
Mmm I mean there us a lot of myth of it, even Mahayana Buddhism is built on the idea of everyone together.
But my point is specifically that the food somewhat feeds the myth from a staple grain allowing for more available calories while developing. And their dishes center around using small amounts for large portions with simple fillers.
It makes it feel like you could feed the poor. Better than corn starving them anyways if you know anything about Pellagra.
Oh a new CCP shill to add to my blocklist
Who told you all of asia is a monolith? They sound racist.
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