>be ancient times
>rice can keep us alive, wrap them in leaves so we can wake up tomorrow

>2025
>let me pay $20 for one of that

Why do so many survival foods become delicacies?

>>21470774 (OP)
I was gonna make the same post about sushi, on account of it being conceived as a finger food that could pack and travel easily, and involved minimal cooking, but actually it's a load of twaddle and sushi as we know it (rolled rice with fish and fixins) only came about in the 19th century.

eh.

>>21470774 (OP)
Probably a combintion of a lack of necessity, capital interest, low volume production and need to spruce it up to compete with other foods.

Most of them changed quite heavily from their origin to taste more appealing, which also drives up price.
Part of it is also that the time and labour investment in the past didn't matter as much.
Then there is the common switch in perception from poor people food to being desirable. For some time chicken wings were basically trash, only to be used as for stock or the like, these days they are well not pricey but have some value.
A bit like how lobster is now considered a delicacy.
If you can market it and get money out of it there is a motivation to sell all kind of stuff.

>>21470774 (OP)
Food nowadays is like Pokemon, gotta eat them all. It's not even about taste, it's just an obsession with culture expressed through food.

why do zoomers get so angry at foods that aren't hot pockets or microwave frozen pizza bites?

>>21470774 (OP)
$20? Rice is one of if not the cheapest food out there, and roasted seaweed isn’t even remotely expensive. You’re probably looking at under $1 for a pack of gim and the rice to eat it with.

>>21470874
those are dolmades anon

>>21470876
Grape leaves are even cheaper

Love making those.

>>21470879
I know I was just pointing out that it wasn't suʒi

dolmades are often made with lamb and rice. but yeah shit was super cheap back in the day but still is, but I guess because it's kind of a novelty for most people these days you get charged café prices

>>21470809
onigiri is 2k+ years old

>>21470774 (OP)
>wrap them in leaves so we can wake up tomorrow
W-what will the rice do if you dont wrap it in leaves?

>>21470914
oh pishposh

>>21470916
I think he was trying to say the good nutrition will get you through another day. he was just saying it retardingly-fashioned

>>21470869
>>21470884
Serbocroatians introduced the dogshit version of dolma with beef wrapped in sauerkraut into my country. Disgusting eastoid povertyslop. Only they (and Romanians) worship this dish and consider it a symbol of their ethnic identity. It has now become traditional here to eat sarma for NYE, with added sauerkraut on the plate. Who WANTS to eat sour food? I'd rather have some nugs.

>>21470919
it's corroberated archeologically.

>>21470929
oh did they find fossilized diarrhea

>>21470774 (OP)
I can see how it will be 40 years from now.
>What do you mean you want to try a burger? Its $50 for some dead animal's flesh and veg on bread. I'd rather have a nutrient bar.

>>21470942
thanks for being both disgusting and depressing. The girls must love you.

Sushi is not a "delicacy" you destitute faggot my god

>>21470942
I lolsighed because it's true, also vegetable fats will all be banned and the only thing legal to eat will be petroleum based lipids because MAHA is kicking into high gear soon and olive oil is woke

these come in a tin pretty cheap tho

Wdym, I can get a good heaping of delicious warag agnab for less than 1 monies (4 in freedom dollars).
I could even get a bucket of it for a family gathering for around 10 to 12 usd

>>21471124
>olive oil is woke
wat?

>>21471496
You know what that means, pronouns

>>21471504
How can oil have pronouns>?

>peasants experiment with cheap ingredients in order to make something tasty to brighten up their life
>through random combinations they find something that is quite delicious
>it spreads across peasant culture
>it transfers to more noble cuisine due to being overall good

>>21470774 (OP)
Hi Op. i went out and bought canned dolmas becayse of this and am eating them now with orange juice. I am an unemployed tranner who will go play dayz after this

>>21470928
Love making those too

Fuckin' dolmades. I used to work at a greek restaurant and every week or so I'd have to wrap hundreds of those little bastards at a time. God that was the worst kitchen ever to prep for. Dolmades, souvlaki, moussaka, and don't get me fucking started on dealing with bad phyllo for baklava and spanakoptia.

>>21471872
>canned dolmas
fucking gross

>>21470884
>suʒi
/sɯʃJ/

>>21471920
>I had to actually do stuff by hand instead of throwing Sysco heat and eat shit into an oven :(

>>21471920
But was the food good?

>>21470774 (OP)
>Why do so many survival foods become delicacies?
Because people are accustomed to other things.
It's funny to me that a thread like this will never be made about sardines.

It's delicious but a pain in the ass to make. Just like hummus. I'll gladly pay a few dollars more than it would cost to make it myself to avoid the hassle.

>>21471983
>Just like hummus.
put chickpeas and spices in food processor
blend
???
profit

>>21471952
Oh sure, it was just miserable to prep. It was the second job I ever had and my first was at a barbecue place where the most difficult prep items were pulling chicken meat off of bones and stacking the wood deliveries for the smoker. I miss working there but the owners basically drove it into the ground and the paychecks got unreliable to cash.

>>21471990
you have to cook the chickpeas and remove the skins or else the hummus will be grainy

>>21471994
>I have to boil the chickpeas and peel them! Arrrrgggh! I'm going insane!

>>21472030
I would rather pay a few extra dollars than boil beans for an hour and remove the skins

>>21472036
And that's why no one will remember your name

>>21471920
>Greek Restaurant
>makes loads of everything ahead of time so it can just be microwaved on demand
this checks out

>>21471967
Because 4chan lacks a bunch of artistic assholes like you.

>>21472148
No it doesn't.

>>21470914
No. That's just how many times it needs to be folded.

>>21470774 (OP)
I blame women,all women should be sent to siberia till they stop acting retarded.

>>21471509
Her pronouns are help and popeye