11 种“廉价食品”如何成为奢侈食品
How 11 'Cheap Eats' Became Luxury Foods | Business Insider Marathon
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19 世纪，在新英格兰龙虾卖得比罐装豆子还便宜。结果现在一磅龙虾要卖到 50 美元，是价格最高的海鲜之一。看看世界各地的 11 种食物是怎么从廉价食品变成高价宝藏的
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几种从曾经被认为廉价，到如今变得昂贵的食物，其实这些食物的价格上涨并非因为其本身的品质或稀有性，而是由于市场需求、文化因素以及食物的社会象征意义发生了变化。在过去，像龙虾、牛尾这样的食物曾被视为贫民食物。以龙虾为例，19世纪新英格兰的龙虾价格甚至比罐装豆子还便宜。然而，随着人们对于这些食物的需求增加，加之捕捞和生产的难度提升，龙虾的价格逐渐飙升，成为了如今的奢侈海鲜。牛尾的情况也是如此，在许多文化中牛尾曾是贫困人群的主食，但随着烹饪技巧的进步和食物文化的传播，牛尾逐渐成为高级料理，价格随之上涨。鹅肝的制作过程曾因强制喂食而饱受争议，但一些生产者采取了更为人道的方式，使得这些产品更为珍贵，价格自然水涨船高。海胆则因其稀有性和独特风味，成为了许多高级餐厅菜单上的常客。
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Here's my guesses without watching the video - Lobster, Acai, Goji Berry, Urchin, Caviar, Kale, and last but not least... Mmm Wagyu.
没看视频先盲猜：龙虾、阿萨伊（巴西莓）、枸杞、海胆、鱼子酱、羽衣甘蓝，当然还有和牛。
I remember when my Mom used to make ox tail in the late 50's she used to make ox tail soup.
记得50年代末我妈常做牛尾汤，那时候牛尾还便宜得很。
Us macacu do bazil catch all the asai
我们巴西的猴子们把阿萨伊（巴西莓）全摘光啦。
Sea urch was ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING. AS EXPENSIVE as it was I threw it in the trash. It has a "Doo doo" taste to it. Id rather eat durian fruit
海胆实在太恶心了！花那么多钱买的，结果直接扔进垃圾桶。那味道简直像粑粑，我宁愿去吃榴莲。
You can actually get most of the food on here for way cheaper if you get it local direct from the people who catch it...the prices displayed on here are the tourist trap prices only rich dumbasses are stupid enough to pay.
其实只要直接找当地捕捞的人买，这里大部分食材都能便宜很多，视频里标的价格都是坑游客的，只有人傻钱多的冤大头才会买单。
Is lobster so expensive because of its rarity or because of the difficult catching process?
龙虾价格高是因为稀有，还是捕捞难度大？
"Split-top buns" are called hot-dog buns in the rest of the world. LOL.
全世界都叫热狗面包，到你们这儿非要叫"分切式面包卷"，笑死。
Americas are paying about 3 times as much for Lobster as Canadians. Lobster from the same waters as the Gulf of Maine. No sure why. Must be your great free market and all your freedom you keep talking about.
美国佬买龙虾的价格是加拿大的三倍，明明都从缅因湾同片海域捞的，看来你们吹嘘的自由市场和自由精神挺费钱啊。
Too much processing, too much policy.
政策干预太多，加工环节太复杂。
They still trash foods. Just because someone tells you shit taste like sugar youre going to eat it shit
就算别人说屎是甜的，你们还真会去吃？这些所谓美食根本是炒作出来的垃圾。
it's hilarious how people become so stupid, it's a law of supply and demand, cannot control it like weather or any natural phenomenon. if a lot of people wants to buy it and not enough supply for everyone, you have to pay higher price to get one. can't just say give me one to same price while the other willing to pay at higher one.
有些人连基本经济学都不懂，供求关系就像天气一样无法操控。当供不应求时，价高者得才是市场规律，哪能强求低价购买？
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I’m surprised he doesn’t feed those black cows malt liquor like a 40 of OE
居然没给黑牛喂麦芽酒，比如40盎司装的Olde English，这操作不够朋克啊。
I don’t know if black ppl realize this, but literally 8-9/10 white ppl think an “Oxtail” is from some different animal called an “Ox” that isn’t just fking beef lol. Deadass serious
黑人兄弟们知道吗？其实十有八九的白人真以为牛尾是来自某种叫"OX"的神秘生物，而不是普通牛肉。认真的。
Why the hell aren’t they enforcing the soft shell being thrown back? It would encourage fishermen to get only hard shell and based on all of this information, it shouldn’t (just bc things SHOULD happen, people in politics get in the way) make the price jump
为什么不严格执行软壳龙虾必须放归？这样渔民就会专注捕捞硬壳龙虾，按道理价格不该疯涨，但政客们总会搞砸事情。
The barbecue part for me is just murican bullshit, nothing beat the glorious south american churrasco/assado
德州烧烤就是美国佬的自嗨，根本比不上南美烤肉的王者地位。
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Acai berries 20 cent a pound
But you do know it cost a whole lost to ship it to the US.
Processing and stores cost money too
Wages in the US is also high
So what do you expect.
阿萨伊果产地才20美分一磅，但运到美国要多少运费？加工仓储要钱，人工成本又高，价格能不高吗？
the foie gras footage isnt what the bulk that u have been served. Nice way of not protecting the image of foie gras i guess.
The bulk that u r being served now are those force fed factories. The scene may not be for everyone.
视频里的鹅肝制作画面太美化了吧？市面上大部分都是强制填喂的工厂货，这种场景可不适合所有人观看。
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the moment you freeze lobster you might as well just eat imitation. what a waste. King Crab is best anyway. Even my buddies in Maine don't eat lobster.
冷冻过的龙虾还不如吃仿制螃蟹肉呢，真浪费！帝王蟹才是王道，我缅因州的朋友都不吃本地龙虾。
Since copper river king didn’t make the list, I assume it’s always been a luxury food then? Let alone wild salmon in general?
铜河帝王鲑没上榜，说明它一直是高端货？更别说其他野生三文鱼了？
The lobsters are so cute I lowkey feel bad
龙虾太可爱了，莫名有种负罪感。
$48 for oxtail ravioli. Are you crazy?
牛尾意式饺子卖48刀？疯了吧！
He uses a super bright LED light to "hypnotize" the geese which makes it easy to catch them. Never explained how they are actually killed.
用强光LED灯"催眠"鹅群方便捕捉，却绝口不提宰杀过程
I grew up eating kale in a household on a budget.
Now kale is the latest food fad, from smoothies to chips.
我家以前穷才吃羽衣甘蓝，现在倒成健康食品网红了，什么奶昔薯片都用它做。
50 bucks for one pound of New England lobster, obviously u never lived there , I can go to stonington Connecticut and get a 1 pound lobster for 5 bucks so STFU and get ur info right … stop lieing
新英格兰龙虾一磅50刀？明显没在当地住过！我去康州Stonington买一磅才5刀，闭嘴吧别造谣了。
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The Best Oxtails is sold at Methodist Hospital in Houston, TX. In 2014 in cost for the whole meal less than $8. I haven't been able to go back but I'm afraid to see what the cost is now.
休斯顿卫理公会医院卖的牛尾全餐曾是性价比之王，2014年不到8刀。现在都不敢回去看价格了。
what's the texas bbq part doing in here, it felt so out of place
德州烧烤这段和主题有啥关系？格格不入的。
Sucks my child hood food is now high end food
童年廉价食物变成高端料理，真让人不爽。
Garlic was considered poor people vegetables until a scientist found out it's healthy for you
大蒜以前是穷人才吃的蔬菜，直到科学家发现了它的营养价值。
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Learned a great story when I first moved to Maine about a prison revolt in local prisons that resulted in a rule that inmates could only be fed lobster 2 times/week max. It was the cheapest protein around and they were all sick of it.
刚搬来缅因州就听说个趣闻：以前监狱暴动后规定每周最多给犯人吃两次龙虾，因为当时龙虾是最便宜的蛋白质，犯人们都吃吐了。
I just don't understand the economics of tuna. Can someone explain how it can profitable for a restaurant to pay upwards of $5000.00 per pound of tuna? How much does the restaurant make on a pound of tuna?
金枪鱼经济学真难懂！餐厅花5000刀买一磅鱼，到底能赚多少？这生意怎么做？
Oxtail has been expensive for years. My mom was born in Michigan, and my dad was born in Montana. Both families raised cattle, and butchered 3 to 5 calves per year.
牛尾贵了好多年了，我父母家族都养牛，每年宰3-5头小牛，可我现在买牛尾比买西冷牛排还贵一倍。
In some sense, same reason why country food is now called soul food. Meanwhile, actual soul food which was served around the dust bowl and depression era look nothing like what you see today and has an entirely different premise than the indulgence.
就像乡间食物被包装成了"灵魂食物"，其实大萧条时期真正的“灵魂食物”（稀少昂贵的食物）和现在餐馆卖的奢华版本根本不是一回事。
The 'complete protein' thing is not true. There is no such thing as 'complete proteins'. It's a carnist pseudoscience. Quinoa is healthy but not much more than beans, lentils, etc., and one can be vegan perfectly well without it.
"完全蛋白质"是伪科学概念，藜麦并不比豆类更营养，素食者不吃它照样活得健康。
Asians eat oxtail too (Chinese & Vietnamese), though it's more of a sorta exotic food, like chicken feet. I don't eat oxtail nor chicken feet, but my sibling does.
亚洲人也吃牛尾啊（比如中国和越南的料理），就像鸡爪那样根本不过算猎奇食材。虽然我自己不吃，但我兄弟姐妹好这口。
30:00 the audacity of people like him. eastern europeans have also been cooking this for millennia as a delicacy but noooo it belongs to jamaicans ....jeeez
30分00秒：这人真敢说！东欧人几千年前就把牛尾当美味了，到他嘴里倒成牙买加专属了？
Man, without watching I can’t already name sone: lobster, avocado, foie gras, with a touch of caviar and truffle.
不用看都能猜中：龙虾、牛油果、鹅肝，再加上鱼子酱和松露之类的。
I like the fact they respect the local laws about seafood. Here in my country, you give a KG each to the inspecting team, they are happy to let you fish for anything...
他们遵守当地海鲜法规这点挺好。要是在我们国家，给检查队每人送一公斤海鲜，他们就会睁只眼闭只眼让你随便捕捞...
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Most of these are morally abominable.
这些食物大多存在严重的道德伦理问题。
Well they cheap eats because people try to keep it that way by saying no one will want it it you not sell cheap. But now with tech and alot of people already taste it and info fly around they cannot contain their true value anymore. Like peole decry something so only they will use it.
这些食物原本廉价，是因为人们通过宣称"没人会想要这种食物"来压低价格。但现在随着科技发展，越来越多人尝过它们，再加上信息传播，它们的真实价值再也藏不住了，就像有些人故意贬低某样东西，其实只是为了自己能独占享用。
These animal practices are scary…
这些对待动物的方式太可怕了...
Damn sea urchin, and oyster if i want i can eat it daily and it's free. You people need to be little smarter don't fall for advertisement.
见鬼的海胆，还有生蚝这么贵——只要我想吃随时都能免费搞到，你们应该放聪明点，别被商家营销套路了。
Belly pork has gone up ridiculously thanks to Jamie bloody Oliver and the others. It was my family's staple in the 70/80's where I live, London, that didn't cost a fortune. Now, it's a treat. And I never thought I would see potato skins or chicken wings on a menu, now the latter is cheap as chips. Chips about £1.90 a portion in a local cafe breaks my heart.
五花肉价格被杰米·奥利佛这帮人炒得离谱。70-80年代在伦敦，这是我们家的日常廉价食材，现在却成了奢侈品，谁能想到土豆皮和鸡翅会出现在餐厅菜单上？不过现在鸡翅倒是便宜得跟薯条似的。但看到本地咖啡馆的薯条卖到1.9英镑一份，我还是心碎。
If you want your KELP beds back, then you need to start pulling all the "unmarketable"/zombie urchins you can, so the kelp forests (and potentially re-introduced otters) have a chance to recover.
Otters, as warm-blooded creatures, cannot out-wait zombie urchins; but humans can just cull the whole lot, investing 15 cents on the dollar to pull every urchin in the current kelp-deserts, allowing for a recovery of the entire ecosystem (after which, your fisheries)
想要恢复海藻床生态系统？那就得尽可能清理掉所有"无经济价值"的僵尸海胆。这样海藻林（以及未来可能重新引入的海獭）才有机会复原。作为恒温动物，海獭不可能耗得过僵尸海胆，但人类可以大规模清理，只需每投入1美元中的15美分就能清空当前海藻荒漠里的所有海胆，从而让整个生态系统（连带渔业资源）逐步恢复。
All it should take to convince the world to move away from Chinese caviar is to take chain-of-custody water samples from the water sources that feed into the Chinese aquafarms, then allow the purveyors to independently test for heavy-metals, forever chemicals, etc...
For extra-emphasis, do a side-by-side with the non-industrialized regions in Africa and the Americas that are doing the same work, with MUCH cleaner water...
要让全球市场放弃中国鱼子酱其实很简单：只需从中国水产养殖场的水源处采集全程可追溯的水样，再让采购商自行检测重金属、永久性化学物质等指标。为加强说服力，还可以把非洲和美洲非工业化产区的同类产品做横向对比——毕竟那些地区的水源质量可要干净得多。
Gods damn... just stop it with the plantations, folks (/companies, the true perpetrators of this anti-human agenda)
天杀的...搞什么鬼种植园啊各位（指反人类议程的真正推手的那些公司）
My heart breaks seeing those poor geese being kept and treated that way. It's enough to make me want to stop eating meat altogether. When I stop to think about it - I have no idea how any animal I consume is kept during its lifetime...
看着这些鹅在工业化养殖场里遭受如此对待，真是让人心碎。这甚至让我产生了彻底戒掉肉食的冲动。仔细想想，我根本不知道盘中餐的动物们生前经历了怎样的饲养环境...
glug-glug-glug. Two mouthfuls of beer for me, one to spray on the cow.
That argument would never have worked on my parents!
吨吨吨——啤酒自己先喝两口，第三口喷给牛。这种歪理在我爸妈那儿绝对行不通！
Sigh. Now some toad will find a way to exploit and mess up quinoa.
唉，现在又要有癞蛤蟆来打藜麦的主意，把这东西也搞砸了。
He never said how he kills the geese. Im not buying the hypo gig.
他压根没提宰鹅的具体方法，这种假惺惺的营销说辞我才不信。
MAYBE people are getting smarter, and figuring out that lobster is a low quality form of seafood. I wouldn't eat lobster, of someone paid me. Along with all the other shell fish, and bottom feeders.
或许人们终于变聪明了，意识到龙虾其实是低端海产，就算倒贴钱我也不吃这玩意，其他带壳海鲜和食腐鱼类同理。
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So sad to see how the geese are treated in industrial plants :(
看着工业化养殖场里鹅的遭遇真让人难过
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The man who farms foie gras has my respect. I spent over 20 years not eating meat, and when I did again I started looking toward more ethical consumption. I like his approach and wish it was a more prent mindset.
这位鹅肝养殖者赢得了我的尊敬。我戒肉二十多年后重新开荤时，就开始追求更道德的消费方式，他的养殖理念值得推崇，真希望这种思维方式能更普及。
Not showing the lobster stunner is a dead giveaway that they are hiding something and probably do not care about the killing process.
故意不展示龙虾击晕器就是明显不过的迹象——他们不仅有所隐瞒，很可能压根不关心宰杀过程是否人道。
Before the Western people came Japan, the locals never ate Beef and considered beef as foods for the poor. At that time, only sashimi and other seafoods, white rice were delicate dishes for the rich. When the Netherlands and the Portugese come ,they realized the Waguy variety in Kobe city was crazily delicious, then their price skyrocketed until now.
在西方人抵达日本前，当地人不吃牛肉且视其为穷人食物。那时只有刺身等海鲜与白米算得上富人佳，。直到荷兰和葡萄牙人发现神户地区的和牛品种异常美味，其价格才一路飙升至今。
This reminds me a little of what happened with beef shanks. Dishes like osso-buco put prices up like mad.
这让我想起牛腱肉的经历。像红酒炖牛膝这类菜肴直接让价格疯涨。
They forgot chicken wings. I remember when at the butcher shop they would give them to you. Someone started making Buffalo wings and just like that its one of the most expensive parts of the chicken.
他们漏了鸡翅，以前在肉店买肉，老板都会免费送鸡翅。自从有人发明了辣翅，转眼间它就成了鸡身上最贵的部位之一。
This is why Mass immigration and Diversity is bad. All the food prices go up. America should be america. Italy should be italy. Africa africa and so on. Not everyone all mixed together. Whats the point of traveling anymore when every culture is within a few hundred miles and they are all hybrids of what once was.
这就是大规模移民和多元化的弊端，所有食品价格都在上涨。美国就该保持美国特色，意大利保持意大利特色，非洲保持非洲特色。大家不该混居在一起。当所有文化都混杂在几百英里范围内，变成曾经的杂交版本，旅行的意义又何在？
Rich people and instagram/tiktok have ruined and inflated some of these prices like oxtail. People see a viral spot go viral and sure, the restaurant gets increased sales but so does the demand for oxtail ro whatever other food is shown on their.
有钱人和社交媒体毁掉了牛尾这类食材的价格。某个网红店突然爆火之后，餐馆生意是变好了但牛尾或者其他被展示出来的新食材需求也会暴涨，价格自然被哄抬上去。
Imagine if you came up with something instead of throwing the Quinoa right in the quartz sand/dirt like a...i dono container? ding dongs.
但凡动点脑子，也不至于把藜麦直接倒进石英砂里吧？你们处理食材就像在倒垃圾似的，真是蠢得可以。
On the liver in the jars in the heat, are the sealer ring rubber? If so, that would be a huge no-no to people like me with latex allergies.
肝脏在高温环境下装在罐子里，那罐子的密封圈是橡胶材质吗？如果是的话，对我们这种乳胶过敏的人简直是死亡陷阱。
The common theme with these foods is that they were cheap and tasted good, and overtime they became more expensive as populations decreased and they became special occasion food thus more interesting to those who could afford it more often and example is lobster. or they were expensive from the start but just seen as special occasion food for poorer people ie. The middle class which again as the food became more scarce or seen as more special it gained price like fois grase. There’s a reason the poor people food that tasted bad is forgotten or still considered poor.
这类食物的共同点是：起初既便宜又美味，后来随着产量减少逐渐变成高价货，因此成了富人才能常吃的"仪式感食品"，典型例子就是龙虾。另一种情况是原本就昂贵的食物（比如鹅肝酱），最初被中产当作仪式感食品，随着食材变得稀缺或更具象征意义，价格自然水涨船高。那些既难吃又廉价的食物要么被历史遗忘，要么至今仍被视作穷人专属，这背后自有其道理。
time to eat shiet so we fool the economy
是时候吃点屎来戏弄经济体系了，走起！
I gotta give it up one time for Jamaican people and their cuisine i have no doubt in my mind that this is most deliciously prepared, we love jerk chicken worldwide, salute you jam
我必须郑重其事地向牙买加人民和他们的美食致敬一次——我百分百确信他们的烹饪手法堪称极致美味，全球人民都爱牙买加烟熏烤鸡，因此我敢说：牙买加兄弟们，向你们致敬！
Because rich folks learned that us poor people can make anything work and they came in and took over. Anytime we find something we like they appropriate it
因为富人发现我们这些穷人能把任何东西都玩转起来，于是他们立刻涌入并占为己有，每当我们发现了些喜欢的东西，他们就会立刻冲出来将其据为己有。