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
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"What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent chicken meal?", "Get your hand off my baguette!"
I had to scroll way too far for this.
If by "peasant" you mean "knight of the fucking round table" then yes
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.
Roast chicken on a nice crusty sourdough is amazing. Get some butter or gravy in there it's a hell of a meal
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.
Plain bread is perfectly fine as long as it's not one of those super dry breads
Am woman, would totally eat. Infact my dinner looks similar except my bread is liquid. And of course some broccoli and onions.
Peasants? That wpuld be a medieval noble
You're eating like Final Fight.
(Hits a trashcan)
Roasted chicken.
(Hits some tires)
Bread.
100% health let's go!!!
Oh look, a lead pipe!
Just don't drink out of it and you'll be okay.
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Oh damn, that's a fucking feast! Peasents can't afford that shit.
He stole the chicken and bread, calm down Mr medieval economy
All Javerts are bastards.
You've... heard of produce, right...?
That's propaganda by Hulk (big green).
Dang, medieval peasant had it better than I thought.
A medieval peasant on a celebration day. I doubt they could eat a whole as chicken every day
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.
Depends on which era honestly. The medieval period lasted for nearly a thousand years and could vary 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.
Cornish game hen… maybe a quail.
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Looks pretty good, but I'd like some BBQ sauce, at least.
Or hot sauce 🤤
mix the BBQ and the hot sauce
I see you are a person of culture as well.
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A vegetable wouldn't hurt you.
It would if it fell on your head. Checkmate atheists.
It would also kill you if it was fired out of a cannon without breaking apart somehow
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Aah yes
The bachelors handbag.
Would a medieval peasant have access to that much meat?
King Richard I was once captured for ransom while traveling undercover trough Austria.
His cover was blown specifically because he tried ordering a roast chicken.
There are a few variations of the details in this story though, a peasant could definitely have owned a chicken and eaten it when it died but it was probably way more valuable to sell it.
Doubtful, most common meal for peasants would have been a sort of stew of vegetables and oats called pottage.
A whole chicken would have been prohibitively expensive either to purchase or in lost money from sale at market, same for pork or beef.
Fish though would be plentiful and cheap and a valuable source of protein. Oysters were considered peasant food until pretty much the 20th century.
Wheat bread similarly would have been a rare luxury, especially made from refined white flour, rye and buckwheat, roughly ground would be far more common.
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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.
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