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Eat the best of what people ate a hundred years ago. Plenty of people at that time were either: Starving or near starvation. Eating a profoundly limited diet
by Earw0rm 4y ago
Eat the best of what people ate a hundred years ago.
Plenty of people at that time were either:
Starving or near starvation.
Eating a profoundly limited diet for much of the year, relying heavily on salting, drying, pickling - freezers didn't exist for most people, food imports were brutally expensive and too slow anyway for short-life fresh produce.
Eating food contaminated with all sorts of garbage (sawdust in bread..) as food safety inspection and enforcement was only starting to become a thing.
Eating offal. So much offal. Roasting a whole chicken was a few times a year treat for my mother's family, middle income, UK, 1940s/50s. "A chicken in every pot" was a US campaign slogan circa 1930 - before factory farming, lean meat was unaffordable for many.
People on upper middle class incomes in well-connected parts of the world had it pretty good by the 1920s, but the average citizen, not so much.
- djtango 4y agoAre you suggesting eating offal is a negative?
- Earw0rm 4y agoDepends which. Chicken or duck hearts, most types of liver, sure, once in a while. Oxtail soup. Tripe, cow tongues, kidneys, trotters, chicken feet, lungs, brains? Know they're big in some cultures, but no thanks.
- GordonS 4y agoLungs are delightful in haggis, and I'm rather partial to kidneys in a steak pie. I've had brains in Asia plenty times, and they are actually quite tasty - but I stopped eating them when I learned of prions. I've tried chicken feet once... and to my great shame, I almost vomited all over the table! Using my teeth to scrape gelatinous skin off a chicken toe provides a visceral reaction :( I guess we all have our food red lines!
- goda90 4y agoI had what I'm pretty sure was under or over cooked cow? stomach cut in strips and served with a pretty unexciting sauce. It was so chewy. Made me queezy. I also refused the one time I was given the choice of blood sausage or just lettuce.
- GordonS 4y agoHuh, blood sausage is really common in Europe, we call it "black pudding" in the UK.
- Xenoamorphous 4y agoI love cow tongue, it’s delicious. I won’t try pigs testes though.