More like a medieval king.
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 know 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.
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
Or our lives are abundant as fuck, which makes everything else look like absolute poverty.
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.
Hell no, he had brochettes almost every day…
Vlad, the real inventor of gyros/kebab
Humans on a stick don’t count!
Skyrim ass meal. need a wheel of cheese with it.
Try a ploughmans meal - bread, cheese and pickle. Awesome as a lunch.
Btw, that “ploughman’s lunch” was created in the 1960s by british marketing executives. It has nothing to do with medieval times, it’s just meant to evoque that vague feeling.
The branding of ploughman’s lunch was invented in the 60s but that same Wikipedia page states it had been a common meal for rural labourers for centuries.
The pickle is probably the new aspect. Farm workers have obviously been eating cheese, bread, pasties, cold meats etc. since forever.
Fermenting veggies has been around a long time too. It might not have been a pickled cucumber, but something pickled wouldn’t be unheard of.
Thank you for this info. I wouldn’t have thought to look into such a thing. It reads to me like it was created by marketers, though, not politicians. It says “the Cheese Bureau, a marketing body affiliated with the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency” created it in the '50s.
You’re right, I misremembered the article. Corrected, thanks!
Is that a pickle or some pickle?
Tangy pickle yes. Branston, piccalilli. Or pickled onions, relish, or somesuch.
Neither. It’s just pickle.
And a wineskin full of barley water, chilled in the stream
Nah, just a pint of beer
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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.
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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.
or a very lean goose
HA! A mini Anatolian peninsula, you say?
A medieval peasant would be wishing they could est like this.
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.
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
$5 at Costco babyyyyyy
I’ve had good results with spatchcocking, which as a bonus also cuts the cook time in half.
The bachelor’s handbag.
Lol no. How about porridge with water every day of the week.
More like porridge with beer…made out of old porridge.
Eating a medieval pheasant
Bro where is the greens?
It looks basic but quite tasty if the prep and spicing has been done right.
Not every good meal has to be a Michelin Star affair, y’know. Sometimes, all you need is fries and two kroketten to be satisfied.
Not every good meal has to be a Michelin Star affair
Is eating a vegetable your threshold for “Michelin Star affair”?
Add some veg, and some butter for the bread, and it’s a good meal
A good meal for two, but a good meal nonetheless
Two? That’s a whole ass chicken and a large loaf of bread. It’s easily a meal for four if you add a few veggies into the mix.
I agree, but since some chickens are small and some people are big, I figured I’d err on the side on the minimum. It sure as shit ain’t one guy, we agree on that!
You need some fiber dude, but other than that, the only other thing you’re missing is a tankard of ale!
A medieval peasant wouldn’t waste so much work for a single meal. S/he would make a broth of it, with vegetables to make it last for days
could use some vegetables. 8/10 because lack of said vegetables.
