Also caviar

Weren't lobsters like that? I remember reading somewhere that only poor people ate them sometime ago, beaches would sometimes get flooded with lobsters

Pineapples were also a sign of wealth.

There was a time when people would rent a pineapple to just sit on the table at a party.

Oysters are, indeed, vastly unappealing as food; however, they're not trash - they're excellent water filters.

"Yeah. I really do want a big salty lugee in my mouth" ~ Oyster Enjoyers

I heard a thing in NYC was the immigrants could look for work, and if they didn't find anything they could go to the shore, get enough oysters to survive, and keep going.

First person to cook with oysters was one hungry motherfucker

Oysters never tasted good to me. The whole GoT plot in season 7 with the Oyster selling girl stalking people throughout the city, and into a brothel never made sense to me... Who buys oysters, as a impulse snack? Crazy

They are still trash food. So are lobsters.

Also also lobster and chicken wings.

I like oysters, but like... 4 per week is fine. If it was staple food for me, I'd cry myself asleep every night.

Lobster used to be considered a poor man's food.

And lobster.

King Louis XIV loved oysters and was importing them from the coast to his palace in Versailles.

To be fair, both of those are delicious. That said, I haven't had caviar itself (too expensive), but I've had plenty of other fish-egg products, and it's fantastic as a sushi topper or in a salad or something. I also love lobster, crab, and other "weird" foods from the bottom of the ocean.

Maybe I'm trashy, idk.

I recommend listening to The Dollop episode about the New York Oysters. It's crazy (as are most of their episodes!).

https://pca.st/episode/c17659ec-5cab-4530-b4e1-f13a0c6106b0

Pizza

I can take or leave oysters, but I used to get fried clams at Long John Silver's and they were the shit.

say that to a yinglet [fictional] ;)

Too bad this douchebag uses Twitter.