On Sunday, August 31, 2014 7:29:04 PM UTC-7, jmcquown wrote:

> > Remember when short ribs and flank steak were poor people food and were dead cheap?
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> > And cube steak. What happened?
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> People discovered they're good! Then restaurants started using them and
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> the prices soared.
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> Jill

Yup, I blame chefs for it. Chefs are always looking for ways to stand out and the cheap cuts were a way to make them noticed by the media. They ruined it for the rest of us....and fajitas are the culprits for the rise in price of flank steak too. dammit ;-)