Hell no, he had brochettes almost every day…
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ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 days ago
Peasants? Even many nobles didn’t eat like that every day.
People think that the typical nobleman in the Middle Ages ate like King Henry VIII. That isn’t true. Did you that they determined that at least at a few points in Vlad the Impaler’s life he was basically living on a vegan diet? They ate a hell of a lot of vegetables and grains because meat was still expensive for everyone involved.
elbiter@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hlodwig@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Vlad, the real inventor of gyros/kebab
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 days ago
Humans on a stick don’t count!
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This. You had a steady diet of vegetables and bread. Maybe eggs if you had chickens and some small bit of land. Those times were harsh as fuck
vga@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Or our lives are abundant as fuck, which makes everything else look like absolute poverty.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 1 day ago
Also they weren’t guzzling wine and ale at all hours and when they did drink it was usually cut with water or what they called ‘small beer’ and very young wine (which didn’t have time to properly fermented and reach full potency) that had limited alcohol content. Also they did drink water. In the same way that in places in the world where they have limited water treatment facilities they still drink water even if it isn’t the best.
Again… they weren’t stupid. They might not have had the depth and breadth of modern medical technology on how alcohol affects you, but people knew what it did and they know what addiction is (even if they made it out to be a personal weakness) and how terrible it was.