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Some time ago I watched this video: What Did Peasants Eat in Medieval Times? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeVcey0Ng-w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeVc
by molmalo 7y ago
Some time ago I watched this video: What Did Peasants Eat in Medieval Times? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeVcey0Ng-w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeVcey0Ng-w)
I was surprised to learn that some food we nowdays consider expensive was very low-class back then, and viceversa, as availability and costumes changed over time. Salmon being one of the examples.
I recommend that series of videos if you like this kind of stuff.
- Gibbon1 7y agoMy mother said her 1958 cookbook she got as a wedding gift suggested that 'budget conscious' (meaning poor) housewives could consider cheaper types of meat like salmon. My ex's family if I can tell were immediately descended from impoverished sharecroppers. Grandma picked tobacco when she was a little girl. Her family when they had money ate badly cooked steak a couple of times a week. Definitely a class thing. My family being pretty much solidly middle class and from California that sort of thing just wasn't.