• chuckleslord@lemmy.world
    14·
    2 天前

    And only became associated with luxury due to the insane costs of producing and shipping them at scale. Well, for the seafood anyways.

    • Zombie@feddit.uk
      11·
      2 天前

      Don’t forget the scarcity through over extracting! Nothing says luxury like near extinction.

    • loutr@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      2 天前

      Shipping used to be the hard part. Eating caviar in Russia in a place with sturgeons nearby was easy enough, serving it at a fancy diner in Berlin or Paris involved insane logistics for the time.