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Old 09-13-2004, 07:20 PM   #1463
Tyrone Slothrop
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Monday morning griping

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
My Kenyan relatives think it's funny that tilapia is served at fancy restaurants. Despite the fact that a few of them were raised in huts, they are now kind of snobby and think of tilapia as peasant food and would not touch it.
Someone was just telling me that several decades ago, chicken was more expensive than beef, and was considered something of a delicacy. And lobsters used to be so common in New England that settlers would gather them on the beach for use as fertilizer.
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