Pretty much everyone was. Meat was expensive and prohibited for much of the year.
Eating meat every day is a more contemporary thing than most people will comprehend. I’m a near 40 millennial and my grandparents used to lecture me on how proper meat meals were usually only for the weekend. Weekday meals were usually normally veg dishes and if they were lucky some sort of processed meat. Except for Fish Friday. Every Friday being fish and chips for tea.
Edit: yes, this is in reference to post war rationing, not any claim we’re magically not meat eaters by nature.
I find it more interesting that they theorise that nobles and peasants all came together to have a big feast, seems much more equal back then? though it is just a theory
Not quite Medieval I guess but I’m reading Purkiss’ English Civil War and found it funny her description of a cookbook from one of Charles’ chefs included a note that the kind of extreme meat-heavy diet described would have almost certainly lead to some real uncomfortable stomach and bowel issues.
I hate the casual use of the term medieval because it was such a long and changeable period to just lump it all into one.
Article should read Anglo-saxon lords didn’t eat much meat. But we know for example those in Scandinavia ate much more meat and fish.
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Pretty much everyone was. Meat was expensive and prohibited for much of the year.
Eating meat every day is a more contemporary thing than most people will comprehend. I’m a near 40 millennial and my grandparents used to lecture me on how proper meat meals were usually only for the weekend. Weekday meals were usually normally veg dishes and if they were lucky some sort of processed meat. Except for Fish Friday. Every Friday being fish and chips for tea.
Edit: yes, this is in reference to post war rationing, not any claim we’re magically not meat eaters by nature.
I find it more interesting that they theorise that nobles and peasants all came together to have a big feast, seems much more equal back then? though it is just a theory
Not quite Medieval I guess but I’m reading Purkiss’ English Civil War and found it funny her description of a cookbook from one of Charles’ chefs included a note that the kind of extreme meat-heavy diet described would have almost certainly lead to some real uncomfortable stomach and bowel issues.
I hate the casual use of the term medieval because it was such a long and changeable period to just lump it all into one.
Article should read Anglo-saxon lords didn’t eat much meat. But we know for example those in Scandinavia ate much more meat and fish.
you will eat the bugs.