For some kind of foods there is what we in German call "Ersatz-", a kind of surrogate. You can make a coffee-like powder out of chiccory, for example, which will not quite taste like real coffee, but will do in times where there's no coffee available. Probably, there is a surrogate for all kinds of rare and/or expensive food.
There's a surrogate for caviar, also and of course.
The problem being that once you've tried real caviar, the surrogate will be quite a ridiculous and unsatisfactory business. But then again, you won't know how good the real stuff tastes until you've tried the surrogate. So I guess Derrida was right about the whole original-copy stuff: the original is original only insofar as there is a copy in relation to which it can constitute itself as an original.
That even holds true for caviar.
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