On Mon 15 Aug 2005 03:36:34a, jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> Sheldon wrote:
>> OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
>>> In article >,
>>> "Nancy Young" > wrote:
>>>
>>>> "OmManiPadmeOmelet" > wrote
>>>>
>>>>> Seriously, try "chicken of the sea" brand tuna in water.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's worlds away from the flavor of cheap generics
>>>>
>>>> Oh, I'm not about cheap generics, I've had all of the brand
>>>> names, they have all gone to hell, and you need two cans to
>>>> make two or three sandwiches.
>>>> nancy
>>>>
>>> Well...
>>> There is always fresh fish or canned mackerel. :-)
>>
>> tequilla was considered rotgut... and now, it's high class to eat
>> like you think you're a wet back... a mere thirty years ago in Los
>> Angelos no white man would dare eat a taco lest he'd be thought to be
>> a grape picker (this is true).
>
> Really? I was in Southern California in 1967 and we loved tacos! Never
> thought we'd be considered "grape pickers", nor orange pickers for that
> matter. The cooks may well have been illegal aliens; I don't know.
> Back then Taco Bell had some of the best tacos (without all the hype)
> I've ever tasted.
>
> As for skirt steak, it's like flank steak. Considered poor man's fare
> at one time; now bought up by restaurants for fajitas, Chinese beef &
> broccoli. Luckily, it's not that expensive to order Chinese food.
>
> I don't choose food to impress, but I do get upset when something
> formerly cheap gets suddenly top billing in restaurant reviews and
> therefore becomes expensive. Like catfish. Catfish shouldn't cost $9 a
> pound. But it does.
>
> Jill
I truly wish the "world" had never discovered catfish! Much better when
about the only place you could get it was catch it yourself or go to a good
fish camp.
--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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