For some reason all our favourite meats are the cheapest,
Pork belly, pork fillet, lamb neck, shoulder of lamb, pork shoulder, chicken, mince beef, sausages. Only one cut is now expensive but use to be cheap and that is rib of beef. Our only steak extravagance is cote de boeuf or rib-eye.
Shhhhh. Someone might be listening.
Back in the 70's my brother in law introduced me to beef flank steak. I got the impression that if we didn't buy them, they would get turned into dog food. They became our go-to birthday dinners - each of the 4 kids would request flank steak. Somewhere along the line, maybe 10-15 years ago, somebody else discovered them and they started rising in price to the point where I began looking for something else to grill. I still buy a few once or twice a year when the kids visit, but they're not the bargain I had gotten accustomed to.