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Food? Bread and cheap legumes and vegetables, if any. Meat was for the rich.
by anthk 2y ago
Food? Bread and cheap legumes and vegetables, if any. Meat was for the rich.
- aldarion 2y agoThat is why I specified Early Middle Ages. Not much serfdom during that time, and there was a lot of food to go around due to low population density - and that included meat, and yes, even for the peasants. Also, you are wrong. Meat stews were not just eaten, but the mainstay of the medieval peasants diet: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2019/may/medieval-peasant-diet.html https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2019/may/medieval-peasant-die...