What Was the Diet of a Medieval Peasant?
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Published 2021-10-08
0:00 Introduction
04:08 Meat
07:07 Nobility
7:56 Fish
09:14 Christianity
11:19 Bread
13:17 Ale
15:14 Fruits & Vegetables
17:45 Pottage
18:40 Dairy
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Narrated & Edited by: James Wade
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All Comments (21)
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I like this guy's humor. This is not sponsored by Hello Fresh
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Can you imagine historians 1000 years from now! "The average American diet mainly consisted of McDonalds, Easy Mac and grape soda. Vegetables were rarely consumed only by what was known as vegans! It is also a misconception that Westerners of the 21st century did not drink water, they in fact did on occasion, however water consumed was usually diluted with cordial to mask the bland neutral taste!"
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Medieval peasants had places to dispose of their waste on the village's outskirts. They were also very cautious about soiling the water they were using. Some places were very affluent and the food was plentiful, some others were wretchedly poor. Life was very hard compared to today's Western standards, but there were a lot of solidarities, i.e. strong communities and tight-knit families.
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Sitting here eating a fresh salad...what have I done?! My humors!
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Among the scariest words in the English language are “it’s considered a delicacy.”
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There were also different 'food fashions' or how do you call it. In England, salmon was seen as ordinary food. There were even rules that stipulated that a landlord could not feed his tenants salmon every day of the week. Lobster, at least in the USA, was seen as ghastly food only fit for paupers (of course not MiddleAges but it does show how nowadays 'luxury food' was once regarded as paupers' food.
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2:32 1 chicken = 1 family meal OR somewhere around 500 eggs (over 2 years)...easy decision.
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It's so important to remember how hard and terrible life used to be. It makes modern life much more tolerable
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Imagine if they could see the variety of food available to us nowadays. People get stressed when a ready meal isn’t ready quick enough but those medieval folk had to put in a graft to get those meals prepared.
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I found this extremely interesting, as it dispelled many myths regarding food from the middle ages and also provided factual Information giving a glimpse into medieval life, especially where it was related to food.
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what I really want to know is what they talked about these large dinners. like, what kinds of conversations were these people having? what did they sound like?
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There is a family story from my father's side that our ancestor who came to the US from europe was a peasant. He would often remark that in the old country "there was hardly a mouthful of meat per person per year, and it could only be swallowed with the baron's permission." This was passed down, as was a story about the German and irish immigrants greeting him in the US by throwing bricks. He was a slavic serf, so the other immigrants hated him.
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This is brilliant, the detailed pictures, so many of them and never repeated, the dramatic and atmospheric music. I feel like I'm in a time machine looking through the window at my past life.
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My mom saw traditional pig butchery and nose to tail use when she was a kid in rural Hungary in the 1960s. She also used to go foraging for mushrooms and berries with her grandmother. Makes me wonder how else the people then could relate to the medieval life.
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Cozy and informative, great channel! God bless.
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Learned on a tour of a castle in England that when the potato was first introduced to the English nobles the cooks didn’t know to remove the roots. When cooked with the root it made everyone sick and vomit. The queen banned potatoes and it took a couple decades for them to be accepted.
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Looking at town records of late Medieval Aberdeen and Inverness, it’s quite clear that people did not routinely dump their slop buckets in the same pool they took water from. There are numerous references to “the foul pool”, which was also the receptacle for industrial waste like dyer’s byproducts.
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I loved your humor coming through in this video Jam!!! I’m super happy that you decided to do the narration for this channel!!! I’m really loving the channel!!! Keep up the great work!!!!
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Medieval food wasn't that bad. Just alot of porridge. Sometimes fresh salmon, mushy peas and sorrel sauce on a whole grain bread. Also alot of spices that we've forgotten about nowadays. And sweet and sour sauces.
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The feudal system to a large extent existed right up until the late 1700's, even into the 1800s. France 1789, Scotland 1799, Prussia (German state)1807, Russia 1886. My mother who was born in Yugoslavia, had a great grandmother who was an aristocrat in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She owned land in what is modern day Bosnia and Serbia. She still owned serfs who worked the silver mines and cloth mills up until 1848.
