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-Ok-Perception- t1_j2dqlei wrote

Lobster and crab.

Not necessarily cheap today, but within the range of the normal working man (to have on occasion, not every night obviously).

Both lobster and crab are declining sharply from over-harvesting and climate change.

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There's a number of fish as well that are becoming seriously overfished so the price will go insane and/or they will become very hard to find. Last I checked, the season for orange roughy is literally down to just two days per year to compensate for how over-harvested it is.

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CWalston108 t1_j2drceh wrote

Yep. Snow crab legs was going to be my answer. Their populations have absolutely plummeted

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lylisdad t1_j2dutq4 wrote

Which is also ironic because originally only the poor ate lobster because they were seen as basically giant cockroaches. Now the poor can't afford it and the rich see it as a delicacy!

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Infamous_Row_5677 t1_j2fbjjn wrote

Not only the poor ate lobsters. Everyone did. They were just so cheap back then because there were so many of them, that's why they fed them to inmates. It was considered cheap but good food.

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AugustusClaximus t1_j2duhpw wrote

I think most fish would be prohibitively expensive today if it weren’t heavily subsidized.

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orangeslices44 t1_j2e1ym0 wrote

lol vegans have said to leave the fish crab lobster alone but here we are..

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