9 Cheap Cuts Black Families Were Shamed For (That Cut Your Meat Bill in Half)

My grandmother fed nine people on what a lot of families now spend feeding two, and she did it with the cuts the butcher set aside for folks like us. They called that food poor. Then they discovered oxtail, ran the price from about six dollars a pound past fourteen, and priced us right out of our own kitchen. So here are nine cheap cuts Black families were once shamed for, the ones that still cut your meat bill in half if you let them: neck bones, smoked ham hocks, turkey necks, pig feet, chicken leg quarters, chitlins, beef shank, pork shoulder, and gizzards. How to cook each one, what it really costs, and why there was never a thing to be ashamed of.