Even in the 1960s eating a whole chicken would have been a luxury, this isn’t peasant food, that’s the gout inducing diet of a king
A succulent meal
Submitted 2 weeks ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
ronl2k@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I doubt anyone today eats a whole chicken for lunch.
Faildini@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I used to work at Boston Market, and there were definitely customers that would order a whole chicken just for themselves and eat it. Not every day or anything, but it wasn’t rare enough to raise eyebrows either.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Soft white bread? Nobody but rich upper class people could afford soft white bread until well past the industrial revolution.
That’s also a pretty large roasted bird that’s being eaten in complete absence of stew.
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Roast chicken on a nice crusty sourdough is amazing. Get some butter or gravy in there it’s a hell of a meal
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
fun fact: whole-grain bread is probably healthier than soft white bread anyways due to an increased content in fiber, so there’s that …
Stern@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Skyrim ass meal. need a wheel of cheese with it.
arc99@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Try a ploughmans meal - bread, cheese and pickle. Awesome as a lunch.
TimeNaan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Btw, that “ploughman’s lunch” was created in the 1960s by british politicians. It has nothing to do with medieval times, it’s just meant to evoque that vague feeling.
lovely_reader@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is that a pickle or some pickle?
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And a wineskin full of barley water, chilled in the stream
timestatic@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
A medieval peasant on a celebration day. I doubt they could eat a whole as chicken every day
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Depends on which era honestly. The medieval period lasted for nearly a thousand years and could very about as much as one would expect, so for example a very well off peasant during the high medieval period maybe could have eaten a whole ass chicken for a while at least. Probably wouldn’t have though, at least not without turning it into soup or a sandwich equivalent.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
stew 🤤️
Godric@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I understand if any more words come pouring out of your cunt mouth, I’m going to have to eat every last chicken in this room.
CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Cornish game hen… maybe a quail.
DrivebyHaiku@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Yeah communally like a couple times a year if lucky and most likely spent hens or cockrels not this monstrosity of a broiler meat bred bird.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Oh damn, that’s a fucking feast! Peasents can’t afford that shit.
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
He stole the chicken and bread, calm down Mr medieval economy
FloatingAlong@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
All Javerts are bastards.
Damorte@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
[deleted]SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
The roast chicken is usually not an egg creating machine though.
They are fairly young male chickens, that have been raised just past their maximum growth rates.I guess that wouldn’t have been that much different in medieval times. The difference nowadays is, that we have specialized breeds for egg-laying or meat production vice versa and the respective ‘wrong’ sex of each will just be ‘discarded’ right after hatching.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 weeks 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.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Or our lives are abundant as fuck, which makes everything else look like absolute poverty.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 weeks 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.
elbiter@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hell no, he had brochettes almost every day…
Hlodwig@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Vlad, the real inventor of gyros/kebab
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
Humans on a stick don’t count!
JAPHacake@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
More like a medieval king.
john_t@piefed.ee 2 weeks ago
“What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent chicken meal?”, “Get your hand off my baguette!”
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I had to scroll way too far for this.
S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
You’re eating like Final Fight.
(Hits a trashcan)
Roasted chicken.
(Hits some tires)
Bread.
100% health let’s go!!!Maultasche@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh look, a lead pipe!
S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Haggard:
Oh yes I’m tournament viable now!dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just don’t drink out of it and you’ll be okay.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Needs more golden carrot
AHorseWithNoNeigh@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 2 weeks ago
No utensils required
Aeri@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If by “peasant” you mean “knight of the fucking round table” then yes
DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
A medieval peasant would be wishing they could est like this.
mlg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No one before the 1930s had access to such a large breed of chicken lol.
They probably would have confused this picture with a miniature Turkey.
Hule@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
HA! A mini Anatolian peninsula, you say?
Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
or a very lean goose
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A few things to unpack here.
- That chicken is roasted nicely, but I completely understand if that was bought in that condition at the grocer’s.
- Plain bread is a travesty. it needs to be either toasted and/or you need some melted butter or gravy to sop up.
- Pair this with some fruit or pan seared/roasted vegetables. Even microwaved beans would make this nutritious. Takes very little effort, very easy to do.
- Even peasants had access to beer, ale, or home-made short-beer/kvass. Gotta calorie-max so you can work in the field tomorrow. Plus, the alcohol helps with the constant muscle-aches and fatigue from endless labor.
There are innumerable ways to elevate this meal, but I’ll keep this comment short. Anyone, feel free to message me or reply here if you want tips for that.
edinbruh@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
Plain bread is perfectly fine as long as it’s not one of those super dry breads
ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
super dry breads
Technically that’s not bread. That’s… Hm… Wheat scratcher? Anywho, a proper bread with no industrial processing is moist. :)
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Plain bread is a travesty
This isn’t plain bread, good sir, this is a baguette! Well, rather small one, but still.
arc99@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A lazy supermarket special - a roast chicken in a bag and a baguette roll picked up on the way to the checkout. We’ve all been there and I’m sure it makes a passable meal, but cooking is a skill everyone should endeavour to be proficient in.
chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah but lets face it, a supermarket rotisserie chicken is generally cheaper and better than a chicken roasted at home. I dont understand the economic of it, but its true. I have up roasting chicken at home because its just never as succulent
fairyfuzz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
$5 at Costco babyyyyyy
pintsandsocks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The bachelor’s handbag.
thethrilloftime69@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
You’re going to be constipated
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The person for sure needs to learn how to cook
Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Peasants? That wpuld be a medieval noble
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Looks pretty good, but I’d like some BBQ sauce, at least.
heiligerbimbam@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
😂 I don’t think I eat that much meat in a whole month, but I also “cook” very simply. Quantity and taste are more important than style.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Reminds me of a pretty recent game called Pentiment that’s like an old school point and click adventure about a murder in a middle age German Abby where a bunch of conversations happen over meals & who you eat with can have an effect on a bunch if stuff in the game. it was pretty cool to include and I’m guessing they tried to go for some accuracy considering how much detail they use on the foods.
DrSleepless@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Minecraft dinner
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Needs butter.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lol no. How about porridge with water every day of the week.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
A medieval king more like
robocall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s a US$5 Costco rotisserie
sommerset@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Bro where is the greens?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
A vegetable wouldn’t hurt you.
ickplant@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Stop it, you’re killing him!
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It would if it fell on your head. Checkmate atheists.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
lol gottem
Hackworth@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
-Dr. Steve Brule
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
It would also kill you if it was fired out of a cannon without breaking apart somehow
Soulphite@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Potatoes could. The leaves, sprouts, and underground stems (tubers) of potatoes contain a toxic substance called glycoalkaloid. Glycoalkaloids make a potato look green when it’s exposed to light, gets damaged, or ages. Eating potatoes with a high glycoalkaloid content can cause nausea, diarrhea, confusion, headaches, and death.
Also, the sentient mutant vegetables on Atrack of the Killer Tomatoes will definitely want to do harm toward OP.
ch00f@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not to mention, if you try to swallow a potato whole (as one does), you risk choking to death.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
From what I understand, green potatoes are rendered harmless by boiling, as the poisons are water soluble. Though they are not rendered inactive by boiling, they are diffused through the water, rendering it inadvisable to reuse for boiling other foods. Following that, harvesting these poisons is relatively easy and a good way to get Cheney, that asshole, to keep to his own fucking food.
Not disagreeing, trying to keep food waste down.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
now I have Attack of the Killer Tomatoes song in my head, what a fucking classic!
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
I am sure uou shouldn’t eat raw potatoes anyway
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Tomatoes are fruit! Although I don’t know if the mutant tomatoes still count as such.
AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m a vegetarian once removed. A lot of the animals I eat were vegetarians.
robocall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A chicken would eat you if it could
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
This at least reduces bioaccumulation.
mc900ftJesus@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
Is wheat not a vegetable?
stray@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Wheat grain is strictly a vegetable, being an edible plant part. But people usually use the word to refer to a socially-constructed category which is completely feels-based. Membership tends to be determined by flavor profile, nutrition content, and whether the given part falls into another popular sub-category (such as fruit or nuts). This is why fruits like the tomato and pumpkin are usually sorted as vegetables separately from fruits with generally sweeter flavors like the banana or orange.
Vegetables like grains, legumes, and certain tubers will often be grouped together as “carbs” due to their high carbohydrate content which distinguishes them from low-calorie, high-fiber vegetables like spinach or broccoli.
CannedYeet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wheat is a plant. If wheat was a vegetable we wouldn’t need the distinction between plant and vegetable.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Probably hard to from their hospital bed, but I don’t see what this feast fit for a squire has to do with that.
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh yeah? Do you think a bit of fiber finally moving all that trapped poop is harmless? We don’t all have guts of steel like SOMEBODY.
YellowParenti@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
When I was on a strict diet, I actually bought 5 dollar rotisserie chicken and made a stir fry of sorts with broccoli, spinach, carrots, peas. I’d skip breakfast just to be able to have a big dinner and be satisfied going to bed. I’d try to get close to 120g of protein a day, (I’d eat half a chicken a day) and technically as much veg as I could stomach. I figure I was eating around 1500 calories a day. It worked but it was boring.
tino_408@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Most vegetables are poisonous just saying
axx@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
That’s really stretching the definition of “vegetables”.