Historical Food Preservation
Discussions focus on pre-refrigeration methods like salting, fermenting, curing, and drying meat and other foods used by ancestors, including surprising historical eating habits and survival practices.
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Wasn't most meat also salted in the past?
Oh boy are you gonna love the things we ate before widespread refrigeration.
not disputing, but in ye olde times people had a taste for a lot more rotten things, like garum and various fermented meat and fish products.
Perhaps they knew warm food was relatable to a fresh kill?
This gives some real chills: https://en.uncounted.ual.ua/menu/ (what people resorted to eat and their stories).
I assume they were delicious.Reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/0wWe6nOJQu
It could be both: Fermented meat from scavenging. Sounds gross but actually many cultures still have fermented meat products in their cuisine
They didn't have that much food available.
Yeah, surely there could be some dish made from day-old meat.
Humans ate whatever they could fit into their pie-hole that didn’t kill them.