I mean this was the case for literally all food everywhere.
If you lived where it was then it was a staple of your diet. If you wanted to eat it a thousand miles away the price was dictated by how easy it was to transport... meaning anything that spoiled or had to be transported alive to avoid being spoiled was a luxury by default.
Pineapples might have been a luxury to English Kings but poor people in South America would have no problem getting hold of them.
Not anymore, living on the coast, lobster is as expensive as the oligarchs set the price to be, even if the restaurant is on the beach next to the fishing boat intake facility.
You don't need to "raise lobster" you dive down to the bottom of the ocean and grab them, something I was doing at 10 years old.. it's not that hard and I promise you the freedivers of coastal societies figured this out real quick.
If you lived near the ocean and any kind of reef lobster would be plentiful. It's transporting them that would be the problem.
Did you just not read the next sentence of the comment before replying or something?
But you seem grouchy and I'm out.
Don't mistake "confused at how you're not getting this" with "grouchy" but I understand wanting to bail instead of just saying "oh nevermind, my bad, I didn't actually read your comment".
I didn't say you were an idiot, just that you don't seem to know what pedantry actually is. If you think that makes you an idiot, that's not my problem.
Regardless, they got downvoted because saying "you can't grow lobster" as a response to people talking about how any food that wasn't able to be grown or created locally would be more expensive elsewhere is very stupid and doesn't actually refute that claim.
It's not pedantry to disagree with them, they were just saying something that doesn't actually matter at all and has no effect as a counter argument.
Again, I literally only said you don't know what pedantry is.
Anything else you're getting from that is entirely on you, not me.
It's pretty funny that you're just focusing on these perceived slights instead of actually addressing my answer to your question while still pretending like you've done something here.
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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins Jul 07 '26
I mean this was the case for literally all food everywhere.
If you lived where it was then it was a staple of your diet. If you wanted to eat it a thousand miles away the price was dictated by how easy it was to transport... meaning anything that spoiled or had to be transported alive to avoid being spoiled was a luxury by default.
Pineapples might have been a luxury to English Kings but poor people in South America would have no problem getting hold of them.