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Fish eggs convinced the rich that salty regret tastes like status.
means Salt-cured roe, traditionally from sturgeon, prized as a luxury food.
from The word drifted into English via French caviar, itself from Turkish havyar, likely tracing back further to Persian khav-yar, roughly 'egg-bearing.' Sturgeon roe was once so abundant in the Caspian and Black Sea regions that it was peasant food and fasting fare before European and Russian aristocracy rebranded it as elite indulgence — a status flip with no single clean origin story, just centuries of trade routes and taste-making.
- origin
- Persian for roe-bearing fish, not French at all
- real deal
- true caviar comes only from sturgeon
- price driver
- wild sturgeon nearly extinct, farming now dominates supply
- serving rule
- never use silver spoons, they taint the taste