Reading from news:rec.food.cooking,
Serene Vannoy > posted:

> Damaeus wrote:
>
> > It's like caviar. I dunno... the whole idea of eating caviar is as
> > disgusting as eating something like haggis. I have long suspected that
> > maybe caviar is like a running joke with the affluent and wealthy. Perhaps
> > they don't eat caviar, themselves, but they serve it to all their poor
> > friends who come around and think they're living the high life by eating
> > fish roe. Then they sit back and laugh as these poor people think they're
> > living the high life by eating something that's nasty, but won't kill
> > them.
>
> Eh. I've never made more than $25,000 a year, and I love caviar.

I'm not curious enough to put it in my mouth, especially since it looks
just like some stuff I saw at a fishing tackle supply shop on the bottom
shelf. Wouldn't it be interesting to discover that caviar is the same
stuff sold to put in your tackle box? They just call the fishing tackle
"caviar" and mark the price up 500,000%.

Damaeus