That rich people might stop eating caviar if it becomes cheap says so much. I'ts not that they like how it tastes, they just want to eat expensive shit to feel superior to the rest of us
“Goose liver?! Fish Eggs? Where’s the goose? Where’s the fish?!”
“Hey, that’s what rich people eat, the garbage parts of the food.”
Judge Whitey even says “You’re never too rich to enjoy a free turkey dog”
I’ts not that they like how it tastes
Caviar tastes good and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
Didn't they use the same dismissive rhetoric back in the day towards the USSR making champagne cheap and widely available to its citizens through new industrial processes?
It's a game you can't ever win: DPRK channeling all resources at trying to stave off famine and give its citizens a tolerable life - lol look at those broke North Koreans with their primitive aesthetics and tech; DPRK erecting giant structures in Pyongyang and pursuing rocketry - lol, look at those crazy North Koreans putting on a show while their people starve.
In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis. During the Cold War, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.
Michael Parenti, "Left Anticommunism: The Unkindest Cut"
Waiting on "Why America shutting down water filtration plants could be the answer to China's monopolization on drinkable water"
China is regreening the desert, spelling doom for a key asset of biodiversity
"China's relentless destruction of desert ecologies: a look into the Communist state's long history of geo-engineering hubris"
First gen American from a Russian family here. I remember caviar being a staple around the house and spread on toast and such, and we were not even close to rich at the time. I think lower grade red caviar isn't really that expensive (and to be clear this was in the US; I'm just replying to you cause it reminded me lol)
Edit: apparently it's called roe when it's the cheap kind. Salmon roe is like $10/lb, but you only eat a tiny bit at a time so that's pretty cheap
it’s called roe when it’s the cheap kind
all fish eggs are called roe, caviar is specifically black sea sturgeon roe.
$10/lb isn't expansive at all for fish products. That's basically the same price as cheaper Salmon filets.
Yeah, I was in Russia a few years ago and eating massive quantities of roe on the regular because it was so cheap and ubiquitous (compared to the US). I think I was paying ~$4 for a pouch of roe the size of a Capri Sun from the grocery store?
In the evil capitalist United States prisoners are fed decadent lobster!
