Pho my beloved

Rich people eating mummies: 🤮

There’s a conversation in Terry Pratchett’s Interesting Times between Cohen the Barbarian and Rincewind the Wizzzard about the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the poor

“You know their big dish down on the coast?”
“No.”
“Pig’s ear soup. Now, what’s that tell you about a place, eh?”
Rincewind shrugged. “Very provident people?”
“Some other bugger pinches the pig.”

It strikes me as funny how the poor and the wealthy trade culinary places with enough time. Do you think it was a wealthy person that thought to put a bird’s nest in soup? Hell no. One of two things happened. Some rich bugger’s chef ran out of whatever they needed to make tea and threw together some of that old home cooking (with some flair to cover the fact that they were serving a bird’s nest). Or, less likely, someone who grew up poor managed to make it to the top, missed that old family favorite, and this began spreading a new culinary idea among the toffs.

And now fried chicken with a side of rice and iced tea at Popeyes costs $15. History repeats

Lobster fits the peasant aspect I believe

Necessity is the mother of invention. I think that’s true with creating new good food dishes.

Also something being super expensive doesn’t mean it’s good. Just that it’s hard to get.

Ratatouille! ❤️

Few foods in this world beat the magnificence of toast

And most of the time the rich people dish was peasant food originally until the rich people noticed it was better, started eating it too, then competing with each other to make it more expensive until it was just like the fancy food they started with.

bOiLeD gOoSe!