Sentences with phrase «food as a status symbol»

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The prime minister's comments prompted humorous exchanges online but they also revealed a strange status for pasties after Budget 2012, with MPs treating the food as the new «price of milk» — a symbol of how connected a politician is with the public.

Many are sold as food, many are slaughtered and sold as parts for «medicinal» purposes and aphrodisiacs, and many are huge, high - stakes status symbols for the wealthy elite — such as tigers, monkeys and Komodo dragons.»