Day old bread, back yard eggs and grapes.
Cost? No idea. Bread costs about 70¢ to make. Grapes free, eggs practically free, sausage $1 per person, quarter cup of honey as syrup, half a stick of butter, 1/3 cup milk, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla extract. Probably $3.20?
I think that the thing is that when people arrived in the Americas, they no longer had anything familiar, yet they tried to cook something akin to what they had at home with whatever was available, and they slapped a heartwarming name on it.
And here we are, decades later, wondering why those recipes got so twisted.
(And then there’s disney’s ratatouille)
You understand. There’s no wondering to it.
You’d still be annoyed if it was your stuff that got fucked up.