On 1/21/2013 11:14 AM, sf wrote:
>> I don't have the freezer out of hand thing. But all this soup and stew
>> >and lamb shanks talk makes me want to look for oxtails. I love oxtail
>> >soup
>> >
> I went to a new grocery store (for me) the other day that is focused
> on the Mexican segment of the population and they had huge ox tails at
> a price that wouldn't require a new mortgage on the house. I don't
> understand how stores can get away with charging so much for things
> like ox tails and lamb shanks, but they do and they have for so long
> that I can barely remember when those things were sold cheap.

I suppose supply and demand. I used to get lamb shanks very cheaply.
Also ox tails. To me it's weird that chicken wings are so darned expensive.

Jill