On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:17:34 -0500, jmcquown >
wrote:

> 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.
>
It makes sense with the popularity of "buffalo wings".


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