@Irlporcelyndoll@ariadotwav Hot flashes happen when your estrogen levels drop, which is why they're a classic menopause symptom. Your estrogen also rapidly drops right before your period, which is why hot flashes are a common PMS symptom too.
Lady Estrogen is a fickle mistress...
I imagine it probably lost even more popularity once households started requiring dual-incomes, since it's pretty time consuming to prepare compared to other cuts.
There's been a resurgence, though, so beef tongue is pretty expensive now.
Before refrigerators, beef tongue was sold cheaper than other cuts, since it spoils a lot quicker. So it was mainly eaten by poor people.
With the rise of the middle class after WWII, nobody wanted to be associated with poor people, so beef tongue became unpopular.
Backsliding to the point that a roided up, roadkill eating old man with worm-holes in his brain gets to ramble in public about the underutilized fertility of teenage girls, and the sperm count of teenage boys, and half the country INISTS he isn't an insane pervert