Food and drink

[Montegriffo]

Vanilla now more expensive than silver.

Ice cream and cake makers hoping for cheaper vanilla will be disappointed as uncertainty about this year’s crop in the world’s top grower Madagascar has driven the price of the spice back to record levels.

Vanilla prices soared to its record $600 a kilogramme last year after a cyclone hit the tropical island off the south-east coast of Africa, sending buyers scrambling to secure supplies of the flavouring extract.

Vanilla is the second most expensive spice after saffron and at current levels is more expensive than silver, which is trading just above $530/kg. Madagascar supplies 75 to 80 per cent of the world vanilla bean market, and other producers including Indonesia and India do not grow enough to make up for sudden fluctuations in Madagascan vanilla pod production.

https://www.ft.com/content/1c810c2a-286 ... 62a39d57a0

Almost five bucks a pod on the streets...

2x1
£7.77
6x1
£20.70
12x1
£37.29
500g
£768.08
1kg
£1,462.77

https://www.buywholefoodsonline.co.uk/v ... gIY5vD_BwE

[Fife]

Well, we have all been waiting for some kind of actually *good* economic news.

Is that finally here?

Perchance the millennial assholes are moving on to tofu tacos, or some other dipshittery?

Maybe delicious chicken wings are going to move back to the dark demand market of real yardbird people.

Also, please, please, drive the Chik-Fil-A demand for that fluffy white meat through the roof, while rejecting the white supremacy demand for wings through the floor.

Yes, Justin and Julie, go for the vegan beer-pong jello casseroles. Please. Leave all the chicken wings for us losers.

:goteam: :drunk:

Cheap Chicken Wings Are Here to Stay

The chicken-wing mania might be cooling down, according to one of the nation’s largest poultry producers.

Surging demand last year sent wing costs to lofty heights. Now, that’s left them “priced out of menus” and some restaurants are promoting boneless varieties instead, Joe Sanderson Jr., the chief executive officer of Sanderson Farms Inc., said at a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. conference on Tuesday.

[MilSpecs]

So what is the best way to make chicken wings? Traditional buffalo?

[Fife]

LOL, "traditional." Buffalo is OK I guess. Hopefully there will be a big uptick in buffalo tofu or something, away from what normal people enjoy.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Had some wings baked with rosemary that were pretty amazing.

I usually like them with some garlic and Parmesan.

[Fife]

I'm praying for Buffalo Wild Tofu, and with tons of flair.

Bring it on, please and soon.

[Speaker to Animals]

We have a chicken shack here that is Tennessee hot chicken. That's a totally different ballpark.

If I run a few extra miles tomorrow, I could make it a cheat day..

[Fife]

We have a chicken shack here that is Tennessee hot chicken. That's a totally different ballpark.

If I run a few extra miles tomorrow, I could make it a cheat day..

We talk a lot of smack about good pork barbecue ("cue," "Q," you see what I mean) around here, and rightfully so. However, TBQH, good bird cooking is a higher art, even above Q, in most parts of west Tennessee.

All Q and bird is good to eat, if you meet minimum standards. However: the very best bird? Fucking transcendental.

[SuburbanFarmer]

We have a chicken shack here that is Tennessee hot chicken. That's a totally different ballpark.

If I run a few extra miles tomorrow, I could make it a cheat day..

We talk a lot of smack about good Q ("cue," Bar-B-"Q," you see what I mean) around here, and rightfully so. However, TBQH, good bird cooking is a higher art, even above Q, in most parts of west Tennessee.

All Q and bird is good, if you meet minimum standards. However: the very best bird? Fucking transcendental.

Show me a bird cooked without boiling oil, and we can talk. Otherwise, it’s just a mechanical process.

[Speaker to Animals]

What else would you cook it in? Crisco is right there in the oil section for chicken.