Used To Be Cheap

     Back in the day when I still had lots of black hair and my whiskers had color, I enjoyed foods that were less expensive than they are now. Today these cheap eats are swiftly becoming luxury items, at least to my budget.

1 Round steak:  When I was in my teens, this was considered the worst piece of a cow, about the same price as bologna which is made of whatever falls on the butcher house floor. Last time I looked it was right at $5.00 per pound. My parents would toss a couple pounds of it (round, not bologna) into a slow cooker with onions and such and serve over a bed of white rice and feed our family for near nothing. Boy, howdy! I could eat near my own weight in that!

2 Citrus: What is going on here? I know California is burning and Florida is flooding but citrus prices went ape shit before then.

3 Avocados:See # 2 above.. Avocados don't begin to ripen until they're picked so why are they now over $1.00 each?

4 Bacon: Bacon, to a redneck is a food group all unto it's own....    But $3.79 for a 12 ounce package?


     I just thought about this... why is grass fed beef so much more expensive than corn fed? Corn fed is fed corn that ranchers have to buy but grass fed eats grass that just grows. Maybe after the corn season the corn growers could let the cattle rancher have the corn stalks for the cattle to eat. If cattle won't eat it I'm sure hogs would and bring down to cost of bacon.

     One last thought regarding meat...bison were here long before cattle. Back in the 1970's there was a bit of interest in bringing back native grazers like bison.  Whatever happened to that?

     One last, last thought about meat. I'm hearing a lot about feral hogs here in the USA. Give me a dead wild hog or 2 and I'll be one happy redneck!