Who is eating beef cube steak at $6.00 a pound?

Seriously.
This is not a joke question.

Beef cube steak used to be a staple of what was then known as “the working classes”. A poor quality cut of meat that was run through a ‘tenderizer’, that differs from a grinder only in that it leaves a single, intact, piece of beef.

In my experience, that ‘cube steak’ was then processed and cooked to make it palatable. Chicken fried steak with white gravy or slow cooked with mushroom gravy, for instance.
“Poor man’s steak”, we called this staple when I was a kid.

With US minimum wage just over $7 an hour, literally who is eating cube steak at $6 a pound?

Note: if you’re expecting meat at a meal at my house, expect pork or chicken breast. Last week fresh boneless/skinless chicken breast was $1.97 a pound. This week 80/20 ground pork is $1.79 per #, and next week boneless pork loin will be $1.69#.