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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 20 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Skyrim ass meal. need a wheel of cheese with it.

[–] arc99@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Try a ploughmans meal - bread, cheese and pickle. Awesome as a lunch.

[–] arc99@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour 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.

[–] moderatecentrist@feddit.uk 3 points 1 hour ago

Add some veg, and some butter for the bread, and it's a good meal

could use some vegetables. 8/10 because lack of said vegetables.

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 42 points 10 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

[–] john_t@piefed.ee 27 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

I had to scroll way too far for this.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 50 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

fun fact: whole-grain bread is probably healthier than soft white bread anyways due to an increased content in fiber, so there's that ...

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 2 points 44 minutes ago

I thought this was common knowledge?

[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 4 points 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

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 18 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 17 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2 points 46 minutes ago

Plain bread is a travesty

This isn't plain bread, good sir, this is a baguette! Well, rather small one, but still.

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Plain bread is perfectly fine as long as it's not one of those super dry breads

[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

super dry breads

Technically that's not bread. That's... Hm... Wheat buttscratcher? Anywho, a proper bread with no industrial processing is moist. :)

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 2 points 57 minutes ago

The 0.62€ industrial baguette I buy at Despar Is fine and not dry despite being industrial

Anywho, a proper bread with no industrial processing is moist. :)

how so?

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 37 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Oh damn, that's a fucking feast! Peasents can't afford that shit.

[–] Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

He stole the chicken and bread, calm down Mr medieval economy

[–] FloatingAlong@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

All Javerts are bastards.

[–] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Haggard:
Oh yes I'm tournament viable now!

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[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago

Peasants? That wpuld be a medieval noble

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 175 points 19 hours ago (31 children)

A vegetable wouldn't hurt you.

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 103 points 19 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 51 points 18 hours ago

Stop it, you're killing him!

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[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 60 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

It would if it fell on your head. Checkmate atheists.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 5 points 10 hours ago

It would also kill you if it was fired out of a cannon without breaking apart somehow

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[–] timestatic@feddit.org 43 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 15 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

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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[–] Triumph@fedia.io 106 points 19 hours ago (8 children)

Would a medieval peasant have access to that much meat?

[–] mech@feddit.org 1 points 35 minutes ago* (last edited 34 minutes ago)

Depends on time and place, of course. Peasants in the late medieval period in England ate more meat than we do today (about 40% of their calories).

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 68 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 45 minutes ago

They probably ate the roosters though? Or maybe sold them for food ofc.

[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 30 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

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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[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 36 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, they had chickens back then.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 12 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

Looks pretty good, but I'd like some BBQ sauce, at least.

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[–] CreativeShotgun@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Am woman, would totally eat. Infact my dinner looks similar except my bread is liquid. And of course some broccoli and onions.

[–] Janx@piefed.social 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You've... heard of produce, right...?

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

That's propaganda by Hulk (big green).

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Dang, medieval peasant had it better than I thought.

[–] thethrilloftime69@feddit.online 15 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

You're going to be constipated

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