what did people eat in the 1880's-1890's?
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I cant imagine food has changed much over the past hundred years, really depends on what region you are talking about -
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In today's world:\n\nLomi Lomi Salmon\nKalua Pig (with or without cabbage)\nChicken Long Rice\nLaulau\nPoi\nHaupia
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I wish more questions would be made about our food today. When I was a smoker I ate a lot but it wasn't all used by my body. Now I still eat too much and it get used fully. I am thinking that the appetite hormones given to animals in the processed protein meal food is coming down in the processed meat to our bodies. I can't do much about that except move to the wilderness. Food casts are very high in the wilderness. I am aware that I eat to find an emotional balance in my body chemistry. I skip breakfast but eat for the last eight hours way too much. I know sexual activity would remove much overeating but food is cheaper than sex.
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How about homemade bread and preserves!  I think it is very 'primative' and makes me think of a lunch consisting of a cup of tea with bread and preserves.
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From the 1890 Census.  You can find the data at:\n\nhttp://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/cgi-local/censusbin/census/cen.pl?year=890
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You may find something you want here:\n\nhttp://www.westonaprice.org/modernfood/dirty-secrets.html
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I know turkey was only a small part--they also ate a lot of seafood; lobster, shellfish, clams, eel, cod.  Also venison, duck and lots of veggies that grew in the wild, pottage of grains. And of course......CORN.  But not on the cob.  \n\nNo potatoes though--they only grew in S. America at this time.  No sweet desserts either, sugar was a luxury.  And cranberries weren't introduced to the Pilgrims until a while later.\n\nHope this helped.
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DID SOMEONE free and then FOOD...WHERE ?? WHEN?? WHERE AGAIN..!!!!!!!!!!!!
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What does food represent in our lives?  Historically, as well as in the present...
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i looked on ebay and there's a buffet from the 1930s that sold for $1,299. another vintage one, probably made a bit later, sold for $1,295. and so on ...
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poele at home during WW1 were forsed to sacrafice food and time. women took mens jobs, and children had to work. a lot of oil and money we're used and lives were lost
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In the Great Depression, society was in chaos. The global economy had collapsed due to several factors. Countries had trade barriers called tariffs, that taxed international trade and limited production and employment. As well,  workers were not paid enough to purchase the goods made in the factories. Farm incomes were down as food production increased after World War I, so farmers lost money. Then along came Black MOnday, October 28, 1929 where the value of the Dow Jones on Wall Street plummeted bankrupting thousands of people and throwing the economy into further chaos. In those days, people could borrow money to buy on margin at low low percentages. People would borrow a lot of money to play the stock market because they assumed the stock would keep rising. When Black Monday hit, those people were wiped out financially. Overnight.\n\nThen, in the early 1930's a new phenomenom took place - drought on the Great Plains. Farm land turned to dust and blew off. Grasshoppers flourished in the heat, eating crops that did grow. People packed up from Oklahoma and other plains states and moved to somewhere else - anywhere where there was a hint of opportunity. California actually had roadblocks turning people away at the state line!\n\nYounger people were hardest hit. Marriage rates and birth rates declined as young people held off getting married and having children. Young men left home in their teens - some as young as 14 or 15 - and led the hobo life, knocking on doors seeking work for a meal or a place to lay their head. Cars and trucks had their front ends removed and hitched up to horses. Bikes were known as Hoovermobiles, after Herbert Hoover, the president of the day.\n\nFor children, life was hard. At times in many families the mother and father went hungry so the children would not go without. My mother remembers when times got hard at the end of the month having the last of the bacon for dinner one night, then having bacon lard sandwiches for lunch the next day. Leftover oatmeal was often a snack after school!\n\nThese conditions lasted for over five years. Things slowly improved, but not to the level of pre=1929. That didn't happen until world war II brought almost full employment and factories sprang up to make the machiens and products required by the war effort.\n\nI hope this helps put it into better perspective for you.
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gov't, livestock, people, fish, etc... \n\nlook at the address below - very interresting...
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Depends on what side it was. Germans ate things made into stew, lentils peas turnips....usually thrown in a pot. Lots of pork and sausages, but when things got hard you could thow in horsemeat as well.The Germans also had field bakeries and as grain got scarce substitutes were used like potato flour and sawdust!! Coffee was cooked and there was also substitute coffee used later. The Germans had canned food in their packs that was only suppose to be used in emergencies (English and Americans did the same. They also carried somthing like hard tack. Canned food was used by both sides, and pakages of food sent to the front from home was always welcome on both sides. British had lots of corned beef in the can (exactly like the funny shaped cans you see on the shelves today. The Americans also ate these rations. French always had their long loaves of bread and wine was part(and still is ) of their rations. Below picture of me in Verdun,Reenacting the part of a German Cook in WW1. I cooked for about 80 people, mostly a stew made out of horse meat and turnips. Do a search for WW1 Reenactors and you should find more links and info.Look for Trenches on the Web also.
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Try going here http://www.spoono.com/ . They have a lot of interesting stuff.
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In the middle ages, people had to grow their own food. If they didn't, then they would die of starvation. The reason why they'd die of starvation is because they didn't have a lot of things that we have today like refrigerators, freezers or ice coolers. If something was bad then they would just add a lot of spice to it.\n\nAn everyday person like you and me would eat dark bread made from wheat that was mixed with rye or oatmeal, garden vegetables and meat (mostly pork).\n\nA nobel, with all of his guests, would eat cooked meat, fish, roast swan, peacocks and spicy dishes. The lord was always served first.\n\nOne of the recipes they had in the 5th century was called Pudding of Porpoise. You would take the blood and fat of a porpoise and then mix it with oatmeal, salt, pepper and ginger. Then you would put the mix into the gut of the porpoise and let it cook. And then it would be time to eat. Yummy, huh?
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70's - 120's\n\nafter meals may spike a little