Beefy 5-layer burr(ule)ito

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15 Comments

Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 105 pts · 1y (14 replies)

Given the hygiene and food safety during the Victorian era, a taco bell burrito would be the cleanest food that child has ever eaten.

Sewerking@sh.itjust.works · 38 pts · 1y (10 replies)

Counter point, that kid is not ready for advanced spices like cumin.

atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Cumin has been used as a spice in the Middle East and India for 1000s of years and was introduced to the Americas by the Spanish in the 1500s.

Sturgist@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Counterpoint: British Food

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

You mean chicken tikka masala?

Peasley@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

National Dish of Scotland!

earphone843@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Wasn't that when Europe was colonizing everyone to get spices?

Sewerking@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Spice was for trade, not food from my understanding.

Peasley@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Victorian recipies use cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, mace, and long pepper pretty often.

I think surviving recipes are almost all upper-class food, so regular people maybe used more salt and herbs than actual spices.

ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

And vinegar

Peasley@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

True. Probably lots more pickles and ferments than most people eat now

skulblaka@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 1y

currycourier@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Sure, but the bacteria they'd be used to from back then would probably be fairly different from the bacteria we're used to today.

Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I'm not sure it would be different enough to matter. Otherwise diseases like the bubonic plague wouldn't be consistent throughout the past thousand years.

HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1y

Imagine if that child grew up and invented Taco Bell, they truely won the franchise wars by using time travel.