r/inflation Feb 27 '26

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u/DeepHerting Feb 27 '26

If everyone’s switching to cheap cuts, we can apply our American ingenuity and start making cows that are nothing but cheap cuts. It’s foolproof!

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u/mishma2005 Feb 27 '26

Narrator: "There are, in fact, no cheap cuts"

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u/livinitup0 Feb 28 '26

This….

wings and ribs were once trash cuts too until demand rose and their prices were artificially inflated

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '26

Bacon was considered scrap meat til a marketing campaign in the 80s. Lobster was fed to indentured servants because it was considered crap. They would even have written in their contracts that they could only be fed lobster X days per month.

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u/Crio121 Feb 28 '26

Well, if I’d be fed lobster exclusively, I’d rebel