Waitress: We have chocolate, green tea and bunny-rah Dad: Can you tell me about this bunny-rah? Waitress (more emphatically) No, it's BUNNY-RAH Dad I know, i've just never had bunny-rah before, what's it like? (he's serious) Mom Tim, she's saying "vanilla". He was pretty embarrassed. My brother and I still think it's hilarious.
Cartilage is valued in Chinese cuisine. One of my favorite chicken dishes is sometimes served where instead of chicken meat, you just get the joints. I'm not a huge fan, but cartilage is good for you. I surprised that the industry was so surprised that it would be worth selling chicken feet. If there's a demand for it, there's a demand for it.
The beef industry has also seen greater profitability from the marketing of once "unsellable" parts of the cow. They take parts of the muscle groups that were once thought uneatable and tenderize the crap out of them and give them names like "bistro tender" and sell them for $6 a pound. What the fucks a bistro tender? It's a piece of meet that has been jaccarded 50 times to break up all the connective tissue. People buy it because it doesn't have any of that "nasty marbling".. it's all bright red. -idiots.