Ratatouille! ❤️

Pho my beloved

Rich people eating mummies: 🤮

Lobster fits the peasant aspect I believe

They deserve the guillotine just for that.

The rat knows the best.

bOiLeD gOoSe!

Few foods in this world beat the magnificence of toast

Hard agree 👍

Necessity is the mother of invention. I think that's true with creating new good food dishes.

Also something being super expensive doesn't mean it's good. Just that it's hard to get.

There's a conversation in Terry Pratchett's Interesting Times between Cohen the Barbarian and Rincewind the Wizzzard about the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the poor

"You know their big dish down on the coast?"
"No."
"Pig's ear soup. Now, what's that tell you about a place, eh?"
Rincewind shrugged. "Very provident people?"
"Some other bugger pinches the pig."

It strikes me as funny how the poor and the wealthy trade culinary places with enough time. Do you think it was a wealthy person that thought to put a bird's nest in soup? Hell no. One of two things happened. Some rich bugger's chef ran out of whatever they needed to make tea and threw together some of that old home cooking (with some flair to cover the fact that they were serving a bird's nest). Or, less likely, someone who grew up poor managed to make it to the top, missed that old family favorite, and this began spreading a new culinary idea among the toffs.

And now fried chicken with a side of rice and iced tea at Popeyes costs $15. History repeats