Lobster in America went from food of the poor to a popular product thanks to the railways

Originally, lobsters in America were a very cheap and plentiful food, so much so that they were associated with poverty. They were used as animal feed, and workers campaigned for a limit on the amount of lobster in their weekly rations. The product owed its popularity to the arrival of the railways, which introduced lobster to the inhabitants of states far from the ocean, who found its taste delightful and knew nothing of the stereotypes about its cheapness. How useful it is, after all, to look at the world with unblinkered eyes

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Lobster in America went from food of the poor to a popular product thanks to the railways

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