9 Expensive Foods that Used to Be Cheap
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(Jan.11.12)
9 Expensive Foods That Used to Be Cheap
If we had a time machine to trek 150 years into the past, we'd no doubt blow the minds of Victorians when we told them of our 2012 food trends. (Not to mention the Internet — but that's a whole other story.)
Caviar? Oysters? Lobster? These deluxe dishes that we now happily empty our pockets for weren't always so covetable. In fact, most of them had humble roots and have only recently skyrocketed into gourmet status. Kind of like Leighton Meester.
Read on to see the nine dishes that went from not to hot, and how they got there.