In 1485-1603 what did people in england eat?
I Have it on good authority, that the majority of them consumed food of one kind or another. The rest just starved.
What did poor people eat in England in the 1800s?
Farmers were wealthy in terms of food because they could at least eat what they grew and had land to keep pigs, cows, hens which at least kept them in bacon, milk and eggs for the year. The bacon and pork would be cured with salt and hung up on gale hooks in the house and dried until it was sliced. In old houses an cottages you can sometimes see these remaining gale hooks in the ceiling. Nothing on a pig was wasted except the squeak. Brawn was made from a pigs head by boiling it then taking all the bones out then putting it in a large stone jar and putting a plate on with a heavy weight on top to 'press' the meat. Once cooled in the larder it could be sliced. Bread was a staple diet too with everything and especially cheese both which were made regularly by the farmers wife and she also made the beer and 'porter'. In the 18th century 90% of people lived in the country and although life was extremely hard and harsh (as can be read in Tess of the Durbervilles by Thomas Hardy) there was at least an essence of choice whereas in the towns their was little choice except to be exploited by factory owners. Their food would mostly be bread, potatoes, root vegetables and inferior cuts of meat, pigs feet and tails, with mutton predominant. The flour was often debased with chalk or suchlike or even lead. Therefore the children had very low survival rates. Many of the wells and water sources would be impure giving rise to typhoid outbreaks. All was made by hand, pies etc relied on the cleanliness of the baker and in most cases this didn't exist.
Why do POOR people eat POTATOES?
Why not?.Oh! and please don't act reach now ,I know you. You love potatoes to death.
What food did people eat in the early to mid 1800s?
In Scotland the staple food of the poor was oats, eaten in the form of porridge and oat cakes. They also baked a kind of flat bread called a bannock. Many people were smallholders, keeping perhaps a cow or a few sheep and maybe some pigs, and they would have milk, and cheese made from cows or sheeps milk. Scotland has a lot of coastline, and many lochs, so fishing was a major industry, and people would eat fish they caught themselves, or what they could buy. Haggis, made from a sheep's stomach stuffed with offal, oats, and seasoning, was a popular dish. Wealthier people would eat a lot of meat, both meat from farmed animals, pork, beef, mutton, etc, and game. Deerstalking was a very popular pursuit for the upper classes, and venison was a very popular dish. Meat for the upper classes might be roasted or boiled and served with some kind of suce, or made into pies, which were eaten a lot. Tarts, jellies, cheesecakes, fruit fools were all popular. Pickles and preserves were widely eaten, these were important in the days before refrigeration and quick methods of transport made fresh fruit and vegetables readily available all year round. The manner of serving dinner, and the time, changed over the course of the 1800s. At the beginning of the century, dinner, the main meal of the day, was commonly eaten in the afternoon, but gradually it became fashionable to dine later, in the evening. Dinner for the well off in the early 1800s would consist of two or three courses, each consisting of several different dishes to choose from, the table would be set out rather like a modern buffet. In the mid 1800s, people began to adopt the manner of dining more familiar to us now, with a series of dishes each served as a seperate course. For a well off family, this might consist of soup, fish, game, meat, dessert, and savoury, I am sorry, I don't know much about Canadian food, but I would imagine that food in Canada would be more plentiful because of more land being available for cultivation, more wild game to hunt etc.