Oh hell no to fluffy-bunnyism. But, as I understand it, meat was the provenance of the upper classes, throughout the world. Peasants ate what they grew. They couldn't hunt (in medieval Europe, I'm fuzzier on Russia) because the lord owned all the game. Livestock was mainly too valuable to be eaten except on very special occasions.
Pease porridge hot Pease porridge cold pease porridge in the pot, nine days old was the staple diet up into about the 18th/19th century. The pot was kept cooking and whetever there was got dumped in.
Now your upper classes are another story. (I own several medieval cookbook reproductions) Meat, meat, bread and more meat, some fruit and meat. Fruited meat. Swans and Narwhals, Goose and beef and pork and lark pie and rabbit pie with prunes and the bones still in.
Actually, mine are romances, but they are same-sex romances. And they aren't moon and June gushy romances. They're the kind where you bond over cleaning sword cuts and surviving sea/air battles, and you always know that either could die at any time.
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But, as I understand it, meat was the provenance of the upper classes, throughout the world. Peasants ate what they grew. They couldn't hunt (in medieval Europe, I'm fuzzier on Russia) because the lord owned all the game. Livestock was mainly too valuable to be eaten except on very special occasions.
Pease porridge hot
Pease porridge cold
pease porridge in the pot, nine days old
was the staple diet up into about the 18th/19th century. The pot was kept cooking and whetever there was got dumped in.
Now your upper classes are another story. (I own several medieval cookbook reproductions) Meat, meat, bread and more meat, some fruit and meat. Fruited meat.
Swans and Narwhals, Goose and beef and pork and lark pie and rabbit pie with prunes and the bones still in.
Actually, mine are romances, but they are same-sex romances. And they aren't moon and June gushy romances. They're the kind where you bond over cleaning sword cuts and surviving sea/air battles, and you always know that either could die at any time.