Salmon was so cheap before #food #salmon #food

[0:00]Salmon was considered so disgusting in the past that feeding it to your servants more than three times a week was actually a human rights violation. In 18th century London, people viewed salmon as river trash that only the desperate would eat. Back then, the rivers were overflowing with fish that you could literally grab them with your bare hands. It was so common that rich people wouldn't even touch it. It was considered peasant food for people who couldn't afford a real meal. The flaw wasn't the taste, it was the supply. As the Industrial Revolution hit, the rivers got polluted and the salmon started to vanish. Suddenly the trash fish became rare. Because it was hard to find, high-end restaurants started calling it gourmet and jacked the price up by thousands of percent to make it look fancy. By the time we figured out how to farm it, the luxury label was already stuck. We went from banning it in servant contracts to paying $30 a pound for it at the grocery store. Wait, be honest. If salmon was still $1 a pound, would you think it's a luxury meal or just cheap river trash? Let me know in the comments.