Lobsters now are a delicacy. In colonial times, they were considered barely better than trash- and indentured servants who were bound to their master for a service length of certain years were getting it written into their contracts of servitude that they could not be forced to eat lobster more then three times a week.
This same pattern is true of many foods- a Korean friend tells me that ox tail soup was once considered peasant food and is ‘a delicacy’ now as well.
Lobsters now are a delicacy. In colonial times, they were considered barely better than trash- and indentured servants who were bound to their master for a service length of certain years were getting it written into their contracts of servitude that they could not be forced to eat lobster more then three times a week.
This same pattern is true of many foods- a Korean friend tells me that ox tail soup was once considered peasant food and is ‘a delicacy’ now as well.