Interesting quick culinary history about how turtles went from expensive delicacy to standard to … completely off the menu. And the reasons for the latter aren’t just about endangered species.
(I have no particular interest in eating turtle, but its still kind of curious how things changed over the course of a few centuries.)
Why have Americans stopped eating turtle?
America has a food diversity problem. Chicken, pork, and beef account for many of the animal proteins found on our dinner table—the product of decades of agricultural industrialization—and this has left us with cheaper but more limited options at the butcher’s counter. Once a year we all sit down to eat turkey, but when was the last time you had snipe, mutton, or rabbit?
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Didn’t you post this already?
A quick search says: No.
+Dave Hill odd, I thought that you had.
That might have been me on Facebook
+Mary Oswell Well, we both hang out with Margie, so it's easy to get us confused for one another. 🙂