By oscarthegrouch

Re: Eating throughout the ages
16 May 2008 09:45

Found this very interesting article in The Times today:
"Dinner? It was historic"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article3932000.ece
I found the article funny and informative from a historical perspective- what people ate in the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th centuries down to WWII & the 1970s

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By gerry

Re: Eating throughout the ages
16 May 2008 10:04

Great article, oscar, thank you. Don't know how I missed it as I go to The Times regularly. Should be compulsory reading for the Food Police.

By *Bramble

Re: Eating throughout the ages
16 May 2008 10:40

Isn't it wonderful how healthy it all was ...

By gerry

Re: Eating throughout the ages
16 May 2008 10:47

Bramble, we all have to drink more booze, avoid plaguey water and eat more swans. Pity there's no room on the planet for an Upper Palaeolithic diet.

By Merrie

Re: Eating throughout the ages
16 May 2008 13:36

In my great-grandparents diary they wrote what they ate. This in 1879. For breakfast they very often had mutton chops with eggs, bread etc. Lunch would be something like a meat pudding or pie with veg, and pudding after. Then dinner would be three courses starting with soup, then a meat and veg, then pudding. How they ate it all I have no idea ! They were living in Argentina at the time so was hot and humid. She was very slim in photos so perhaps she didn't eat it all .... oh and before dinner they always had a cocktail - don't know of what tho.
M x

By Sam, worthing west sussex, uk

Re: Eating throughout the ages
16 May 2008 15:40

So basically whats gone wrong is our own idleness, that is making the UK fat and obese.

I found that article most interesting.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Sammy

By *Bramble

Re: Eating throughout the ages
16 May 2008 16:23

That's IT Sammy, we all drive around instead of walking ... so simple !

By oscarthegrouch

Re: Eating throughout the ages
16 May 2008 17:00

You're welcome folks. Gerry, I agree with you, I wonder what the food police will make out of the eating habits of the past. It also goes to show that people did move around a lot.
Merrie, thanks for sharing us what your ancestors ate, really interesting to see that it was predominantly a meat based diet.
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By gerry

Re: Eating throughout the ages
17 May 2008 10:13

My village has around 450 population. Hardly any of them are fat, just a sprinkling and seem to be in the same families.