I haven’t had ox tail in many years. Sometimes I look for it but they don’t have any. I saw a pack yesterday and grabbed it then saw the price and back on the shelf it went. $65.00. When the hell did this happen? I heard its become more popular lately but WTF.
We are seeing what used to be pet food is now being sold as posh tucker . Lamb shanks ,ox tail , lamb neck chops ,ox tongue , beef cheeks ,pork hocks .
I get a bit ox ox tail as I know the home kill guy, weird that some farmers dont want the tail, but try and find it in the supermarket , some boutique butchers will have such stuff but they know how to charge .
Faaaaaaark Im pleased I wasnt bought up during a war .......some of the crap my Grand parents and parents ate to get protein ......they ate the bollocks , the feet .......yugh .
When I was a kid Mum would buy a side of lamb for 15 bucks and the butcher would throw in the shanks for the dog ,and chicken was an expensive treat . Now chicken is poor peoples food ...like 4 bucks / kg and lamb is the treat at 20 -28 bucks / kg .
Blue cod , arguably NZ's best table fish is now selling for 75/kg , which is bad if you dont have a boat but good if you do coz me and the Mrs can catch about 15 kg (of processed fillets ) thats $1100 aprox .......not that we get our limit every time but it sure does pay for the fuel etc .
