• arc99@lemmy.world
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    9 minutes 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.

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    9 hours ago

    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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    10 hours ago

    “What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent chicken meal?”, “Get your hand off my baguette!”

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    12 hours 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.

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      11 hours ago

      Roast chicken on a nice crusty sourdough is amazing. Get some butter or gravy in there it’s a hell of a meal

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    If by “peasant” you mean “knight of the fucking round table” then yes

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    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.

  • S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 hours ago

    You’re eating like Final Fight.
    (Hits a trashcan)
    Roasted chicken.
    (Hits some tires)
    Bread.
    100% health let’s go!!!

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      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.

    • YellowParenti@lemmy.wtf
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      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.

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        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.

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        Wheat is a plant. If wheat was a vegetable we wouldn’t need the distinction between plant and vegetable.

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      Probably hard to from their hospital bed, but I don’t see what this feast fit for a squire has to do with that.

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      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.

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    A medieval peasant on a celebration day. I doubt they could eat a whole as chicken every day

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      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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      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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      A roasted bird? Why not? Y’all are making assumptions that this is a chicken and the peasant a small farmer but why not a traveling mime trapping pigeons from the square?