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   Amy Hoy (amy@jawns.club)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Aug-2023 12:55:31 JST Amy Hoy

   we made lengua tacos! pressure cooker with ancho chiles

   makes me miss the golden era when we used to get tongue for $5 at the farmer’s market in philly. there’s a lot more demand here

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     Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Aug-2023 13:07:41 JST Emily Velasco

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     @amy Ah, here we go. The Japanese developed a taste for beef tongue and they import a lot of it now.

     https://www.columbian.com/news/2014/dec/21/japan-soaring-demand-cow-tongue-drives-us-exports/

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     Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Aug-2023 13:07:44 JST Emily Velasco

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     @amy I do recall seeing a capital C chef kind of guy on Food Network cooking one in a sous vide machine and then slicing it and searing it to make a fancy sandwich. White people here would eat that.

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     Amy Hoy (amy@jawns.club)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Aug-2023 13:07:45 JST Amy Hoy

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     • Emily Velasco

     @MLE_online maybe it got Trendy?

     but even then i don’t know many non-hispanic white people who’d eat tongue

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     Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Aug-2023 13:07:49 JST Emily Velasco

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     @amy No, demographics here haven't changed much. I started poking around online right now and it looks like prices tripled to quadrupled around 2015-16, but I haven't found out why.

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     Amy Hoy (amy@jawns.club)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Aug-2023 13:07:50 JST Amy Hoy

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     • Emily Velasco

     @MLE_online damn, i just assumed it was bc there’s a large latine population here but not so much in philly. but i assume your area hasn’t changed.

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     Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Aug-2023 13:07:54 JST Emily Velasco

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     @amy tongue used to be cheap here, too, but now it's obscenely expensive. i don't know what happened!