Potatoes could. The leaves, sprouts, and underground stems (tubers) of potatoes contain a toxic substance called glycoalkaloid. Glycoalkaloids make a potato look green when it's exposed to light, gets damaged, or ages. Eating potatoes with a high glycoalkaloid content can cause nausea, diarrhea, confusion, headaches, and death.
Also, the sentient mutant vegetables on Atrack of the Killer Tomatoes will definitely want to do harm toward OP.
From what I understand, green potatoes are rendered harmless by boiling, as the poisons are water soluble. Though they are not rendered inactive by boiling, they are diffused through the water, rendering it inadvisable to reuse for boiling other foods. Following that, harvesting these poisons is relatively easy and a good way to get Cheney, that asshole, to keep to his own fucking food.
Wheat grain is strictly a vegetable, being an edible plant part. But people usually use the word to refer to a socially-constructed category which is completely feels-based. Membership tends to be determined by flavor profile, nutrition content, and whether the given part falls into another popular sub-category (such as fruit or nuts). This is why fruits like the tomato and pumpkin are usually sorted as vegetables separately from fruits with generally sweeter flavors like the banana or orange.
Vegetables like grains, legumes, and certain tubers will often be grouped together as "carbs" due to their high carbohydrate content which distinguishes them from low-calorie, high-fiber vegetables like spinach or broccoli.
When I was on a strict diet, I actually bought 5 dollar rotisserie chicken and made a stir fry of sorts with broccoli, spinach, carrots, peas. I'd skip breakfast just to be able to have a big dinner and be satisfied going to bed. I'd try to get close to 120g of protein a day, (I'd eat half a chicken a day) and technically as much veg as I could stomach. I figure I was eating around 1500 calories a day. It worked but it was boring.
King Richard I was once captured for ransom while traveling undercover trough Austria.
His cover was blown specifically because he tried ordering a roast chicken.
There are a few variations of the details in this story though, a peasant could definitely have owned a chicken and eaten it when it died but it was probably way more valuable to sell it.
Doubtful, most common meal for peasants would have been a sort of stew of vegetables and oats called pottage.
A whole chicken would have been prohibitively expensive either to purchase or in lost money from sale at market, same for pork or beef.
Fish though would be plentiful and cheap and a valuable source of protein. Oysters were considered peasant food until pretty much the 20th century.
Wheat bread similarly would have been a rare luxury, especially made from refined white flour, rye and buckwheat, roughly ground would be far more common.
A roasted bird? Why not? Y’all are making assumptions that this is a chicken and the peasant a small farmer but why not a traveling mime trapping pigeons from the square?
I used to work at Boston Market, and there were definitely customers that would order a whole chicken just for themselves and eat it. Not every day or anything, but it wasn't rare enough to raise eyebrows either.
it might be, but it still fits into the context. especially considering how peasants unintentionally might have been healthier simply due to their poverty, which might seem paradoxical.
The branding of ploughman's lunch was invented in the 60s but that same Wikipedia page states it had been a common meal for rural labourers for centuries.
Thank you for this info. I wouldn't have thought to look into such a thing. It reads to me like it was created by marketers, though, not politicians. It says "the Cheese Bureau, a marketing body affiliated with the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency" created it in the '50s.
Depends on which era honestly. The medieval period lasted for nearly a thousand years and could vary about as much as one would expect, so for example a very well off peasant during the high medieval period maybe could have eaten a whole ass chicken for a while at least. Probably wouldn't have though, at least not without turning it into soup or a sandwich equivalent.
The roast chicken is usually not an egg creating machine though.
They are fairly young male chickens, that have been raised just past their maximum growth rates.
I guess that wouldn't have been that much different in medieval times. The difference nowadays is, that we have specialized breeds for egg-laying or meat production vice versa and the respective 'wrong' sex of each will just be 'discarded' right after hatching.
Peasants? Even many nobles didn't eat like that every day.
People think that the typical nobleman in the Middle Ages ate like King Henry VIII. That isn't true. Did you know that they determined that at least at a few points in Vlad the Impaler's life he was basically living on a vegan diet? They ate a hell of a lot of vegetables and grains because meat was still expensive for everyone involved.
Also they weren't guzzling wine and ale at all hours and when they did drink it was usually cut with water or what they called 'small beer' and very young wine (which didn't have time to properly fermented and reach full potency) that had limited alcohol content. Also they did drink water. In the same way that in places in the world where they have limited water treatment facilities they still drink water even if it isn't the best.
Again... they weren't stupid. They might not have had the depth and breadth of modern medical technology on how alcohol affects you, but people knew what it did and they know what addiction is (even if they made it out to be a personal weakness) and how terrible it was.
That chicken is roasted nicely, but I completely understand if that was bought in that condition at the grocer's.
Plain bread is a travesty. it needs to be either toasted and/or you need some melted butter or gravy to sop up.
Pair this with some fruit or pan seared/roasted vegetables. Even microwaved beans would make this nutritious. Takes very little effort, very easy to do.
Even peasants had access to beer, ale, or home-made short-beer/kvass. Gotta calorie-max so you can work in the field tomorrow. Plus, the alcohol helps with the constant muscle-aches and fatigue from endless labor.
There are innumerable ways to elevate this meal, but I'll keep this comment short. Anyone, feel free to message me or reply here if you want tips for that.
Then it's slightly better industrial bread (was it baguette?), but yeah. Leavens or emulsifiers or weird making process lead to it. Like they also used one of the water retaining emusifiers instead of proper starch content - those tend to keep moistness for up to 48h since baking and then it evaporates instantly.
Non industrial bread keeps water longer, but more importantly loses it more gradually and from the outside in (so that at least the "core" is still moist).
(I'm not arguing pro/against breads here, or trying to, idk, shame you for buying baguettes lol, honestly just trying spread the knowledge)
Crumb must be crumby, but "flesh" of the bread should be moist (do not confuse it with soft). Properly made bread shouldn't be wet or chewy.
When making bread you add water to the dough. Starch will keep the water and when baking, the flesh should retain it spread evenly. Industrial bread often dehydrates/dries it, as that's how it works with their emulsifiers or leavens - don't ask me why though, it's just my observation.
And you can be sure that dry bread is either old stale bread or fresh industrial bread.
a friend of mine brought me some self-made bread yesterday, and it was indeed moist, and i instantly loved it. i wish there's more bread like that one. idk why industrial bread tastes differently.
might be that they intentionally dessicate it for hygienic reasons? i.e. i imagine a higher water content might make it spoil faster.
A lazy supermarket special - a roast chicken in a bag and a baguette roll picked up on the way to the checkout. We've all been there and I'm sure it makes a passable meal, but cooking is a skill everyone should endeavour to be proficient in.
Yeah but lets face it, a supermarket rotisserie chicken is generally cheaper and better than a chicken roasted at home. I dont understand the economic of it, but its true. I have up roasting chicken at home because its just never as succulent
Reminds me of a pretty recent game called Pentiment that's like an old school point and click adventure about a murder in a middle age German Abby where a bunch of conversations happen over meals & who you eat with can have an effect on a bunch if stuff in the game. it was pretty cool to include and I'm guessing they tried to go for some accuracy considering how much detail they use on the foods.
I agree, but since some chickens are small and some people are big, I figured I'd err on the side on the minimum. It sure as shit ain't one guy, we agree on that!
Grab a head of romaine next time, slice it up and rinse it and have it in the fridge so you can grab a handful to add to your sandwich or bed under your hot chicken to catch the juices. Maybe grab an apple while you're in the produce section.
I'd halve the chicken, skip the bread, and add a bunch of vegetables, and some cheese, but yeah. In fact, that is pretty much what I eat as my main meal at lunchtime every day.
I don’t often do a whole chicken but I do often grab a pack of chicken wings (£1.50 for more than I can eat in a single sitting) and sling them in the air fryer for 20 minutes. Man, I love chicken wings.
206 Comments
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 213 pts · 176d
A vegetable wouldn't hurt you.
ickplant@lemmy.world · 122 pts · 176d
Hazmatastic@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 176d
Stop it, you're killing him!
AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 176d
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 66 pts · 176d
It would if it fell on your head. Checkmate atheists.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 176d
lol gottem
Hackworth@piefed.ca · 15 pts · 176d
-Dr. Steve Brule
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 176d
For your health!
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 176d
One of the episodes that had me in stitches was when he ate seafood from a dumpster then went out in his rowboat for a cruise.
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 176d
It would also kill you if it was fired out of a cannon without breaking apart somehow
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 26 pts · 176d
Potatoes could. The leaves, sprouts, and underground stems (tubers) of potatoes contain a toxic substance called glycoalkaloid. Glycoalkaloids make a potato look green when it's exposed to light, gets damaged, or ages. Eating potatoes with a high glycoalkaloid content can cause nausea, diarrhea, confusion, headaches, and death.
Also, the sentient mutant vegetables on Atrack of the Killer Tomatoes will definitely want to do harm toward OP.
ch00f@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 176d
Not to mention, if you try to swallow a potato whole (as one does), you risk choking to death.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 176d
From what I understand, green potatoes are rendered harmless by boiling, as the poisons are water soluble. Though they are not rendered inactive by boiling, they are diffused through the water, rendering it inadvisable to reuse for boiling other foods. Following that, harvesting these poisons is relatively easy and a good way to get Cheney, that asshole, to keep to his own fucking food.
Not disagreeing, trying to keep food waste down.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 176d
How did we get to Cheney here?
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 176d
With soup
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 176d
now I have Attack of the Killer Tomatoes song in my head, what a fucking classic!
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 176d
I think the sequel is even better
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 4 pts · 176d
I am sure you shouldn't eat raw potatoes anyway
ickplant@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 176d
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 176d
Tomatoes are fruit! Although I don't know if the mutant tomatoes still count as such.
AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 176d
I'm a vegetarian once removed. A lot of the animals I eat were vegetarians.
robocall@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 176d
A chicken would eat you if it could
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 176d
Hogs eat anything you put in their trough and I mean anything.
AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 176d
Hey I didn't say all of them, and the chicken that defeats me in single combat is welcome to feed upon my corpse.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 176d
AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 176d
I ain't fuckin' with THAT chicken, I've seen him do some shit.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 176d
And everyone you love.
AA5B@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 176d
This is an argument that it’s morally fair to be chickenarian
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 176d
Agree. If you throw anything into a chicken yard - and I mean anything - they will try to eat it.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 176d
This at least reduces biomagnification.
mc900ftJesus@lemy.lol · 3 pts · 176d
Is wheat not a vegetable?
stray@pawb.social · 9 pts · 176d
Wheat grain is strictly a vegetable, being an edible plant part. But people usually use the word to refer to a socially-constructed category which is completely feels-based. Membership tends to be determined by flavor profile, nutrition content, and whether the given part falls into another popular sub-category (such as fruit or nuts). This is why fruits like the tomato and pumpkin are usually sorted as vegetables separately from fruits with generally sweeter flavors like the banana or orange.
Vegetables like grains, legumes, and certain tubers will often be grouped together as "carbs" due to their high carbohydrate content which distinguishes them from low-calorie, high-fiber vegetables like spinach or broccoli.
CannedYeet@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 176d
Wheat is a plant. If wheat was a vegetable we wouldn't need the distinction between plant and vegetable.
howrar@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 175d
There are parts of plants that aren't edible. One definition of vegetable is the edible part of a plant.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 176d
Probably hard to from their hospital bed, but I don't see what this feast fit for a squire has to do with that.
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 176d
Oh yeah? Do you think a bit of fiber finally moving all that trapped poop is harmless? We don't all have guts of steel like SOMEBODY.
YellowParenti@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 176d
When I was on a strict diet, I actually bought 5 dollar rotisserie chicken and made a stir fry of sorts with broccoli, spinach, carrots, peas. I'd skip breakfast just to be able to have a big dinner and be satisfied going to bed. I'd try to get close to 120g of protein a day, (I'd eat half a chicken a day) and technically as much veg as I could stomach. I figure I was eating around 1500 calories a day. It worked but it was boring.
tino_408@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 176d
Most vegetables are poisonous just saying
axx@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 176d
That's really stretching the definition of "vegetables".
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 176d
Vegetable is any part of the plant that is edible and I don't think the poison parts are considered edible, meaning zero vegetables are poisonous.
Triumph@fedia.io · 122 pts · 176d
Would a medieval peasant have access to that much meat?
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz · 80 pts · 176d
King Richard I was once captured for ransom while traveling undercover trough Austria.
His cover was blown specifically because he tried ordering a roast chicken.
There are a few variations of the details in this story though, a peasant could definitely have owned a chicken and eaten it when it died but it was probably way more valuable to sell it.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 175d
They probably ate the roosters though? Or maybe sold them for food ofc.
cattywampas@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 176d
Yes, they had chickens back then.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 35 pts · 176d
mtpender@piefed.social · 16 pts · 176d
"The tall, skinny ones are confused, Brother..."
Denjin@feddit.uk · 38 pts · 176d
Doubtful, most common meal for peasants would have been a sort of stew of vegetables and oats called pottage.
A whole chicken would have been prohibitively expensive either to purchase or in lost money from sale at market, same for pork or beef.
Fish though would be plentiful and cheap and a valuable source of protein. Oysters were considered peasant food until pretty much the 20th century.
Wheat bread similarly would have been a rare luxury, especially made from refined white flour, rye and buckwheat, roughly ground would be far more common.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 176d
I read this comment in Max Miller's voice and it definitely enhanced it
FishFace@piefed.social · 5 pts · 176d
I read it through his blue, blue eyes
Triumph@fedia.io · -2 pts · 175d
And greasy forehead.
Triumph@fedia.io · 7 pts · 176d
Oysters until even the late 20th century, yes?
Drusas@fedia.io · 3 pts · 176d
Oysters were so common that they were incredibly cheap, but they were not considered peasant food. They were enjoyed among the different classes.
te_abstract_art@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 175d
Lobster also used to be a peasant food ("cockroach of the sea")
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 176d
They'd have access, but you're not wrong, a peasant probably isn't going to waste that much on a single meal.
mech@feddit.org · 2 pts · 175d
Depends on time and place, of course. Peasants in the late medieval period in England ate more meat than we do today (about 40% of their calories).
AA5B@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 176d
A roasted bird? Why not? Y’all are making assumptions that this is a chicken and the peasant a small farmer but why not a traveling mime trapping pigeons from the square?
Drusas@fedia.io · 6 pts · 176d
You ever seen a pigeon?
AA5B@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 176d
Not without feathers but a bird is a bird
manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml · 66 pts · 176d
Even in the 1960s eating a whole chicken would have been a luxury, this isn't peasant food, that's the gout inducing diet of a king
ronl2k@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 175d
I doubt anyone today eats a whole chicken for lunch.
Faildini@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 175d
I used to work at Boston Market, and there were definitely customers that would order a whole chicken just for themselves and eat it. Not every day or anything, but it wasn't rare enough to raise eyebrows either.
Tattorack@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 176d
Soft white bread? Nobody but rich upper class people could afford soft white bread until well past the industrial revolution.
That's also a pretty large roasted bird that's being eaten in complete absence of stew.
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 176d
Roast chicken on a nice crusty sourdough is amazing. Get some butter or gravy in there it's a hell of a meal
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 175d
fun fact: whole-grain bread is probably healthier than soft white bread anyways due to an increased content in fiber, so there's that ...
EddoWagt@feddit.nl · 10 pts · 175d
I thought this was common knowledge?
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 175d
it might be, but it still fits into the context. especially considering how peasants unintentionally might have been healthier simply due to their poverty, which might seem paradoxical.
Stern@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 175d
Skyrim ass meal. need a wheel of cheese with it.
arc99@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 175d
Try a ploughmans meal - bread, cheese and pickle. Awesome as a lunch.
TimeNaan@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 175d
Btw, that "ploughman's lunch" was created in the 1960s by british marketing executives. It has nothing to do with medieval times, it's just meant to evoque that vague feeling.
svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 175d
The branding of ploughman's lunch was invented in the 60s but that same Wikipedia page states it had been a common meal for rural labourers for centuries.
arc99@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 175d
The pickle is probably the new aspect. Farm workers have obviously been eating cheese, bread, pasties, cold meats etc. since forever.
dermanus@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 174d
Fermenting veggies has been around a long time too. It might not have been a pickled cucumber, but something pickled wouldn't be unheard of.
lovely_reader@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 175d
Thank you for this info. I wouldn't have thought to look into such a thing. It reads to me like it was created by marketers, though, not politicians. It says "the Cheese Bureau, a marketing body affiliated with the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency" created it in the '50s.
TimeNaan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 175d
You're right, I misremembered the article. Corrected, thanks!
lovely_reader@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 175d
Is that a pickle or some pickle?
LordPassionFruit@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 175d
Neither. It's just pickle.
arc99@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 175d
Tangy pickle yes. Branston, piccalilli. Or pickled onions, relish, or somesuch.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 175d
And a wineskin full of barley water, chilled in the stream
arc99@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 175d
Nah, just a pint of beer
timestatic@feddit.org · 47 pts · 176d
A medieval peasant on a celebration day. I doubt they could eat a whole as chicken every day
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 176d
Depends on which era honestly. The medieval period lasted for nearly a thousand years and could vary about as much as one would expect, so for example a very well off peasant during the high medieval period maybe could have eaten a whole ass chicken for a while at least. Probably wouldn't have though, at least not without turning it into soup or a sandwich equivalent.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 175d
stew 🤤️
Godric@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 176d
I understand if any more words come pouring out of your cunt mouth, I'm going to have to eat every last chicken in this room.
https://youtu.be/DyztFOogj8Y
DrivebyHaiku@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 176d
Yeah communally like a couple times a year if lucky and most likely spent hens or cockrels not this monstrosity of a broiler meat bred bird.
CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 176d
Cornish game hen… maybe a quail.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 41 pts · 176d
Oh damn, that's a fucking feast! Peasents can't afford that shit.
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 176d
He stole the chicken and bread, calm down Mr medieval economy
FloatingAlong@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 176d
All Javerts are bastards.
Damorte@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 175d
SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org · 2 pts · 174d
The roast chicken is usually not an egg creating machine though.
They are fairly young male chickens, that have been raised just past their maximum growth rates.
I guess that wouldn't have been that much different in medieval times. The difference nowadays is, that we have specialized breeds for egg-laying or meat production vice versa and the respective 'wrong' sex of each will just be 'discarded' right after hatching.
Damorte@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 174d
john_t@piefed.ee · 38 pts · 176d
"What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent chicken meal?", "Get your hand off my baguette!"
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 176d
I had to scroll way too far for this.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 37 pts · 175d
Peasants? Even many nobles didn't eat like that every day.
People think that the typical nobleman in the Middle Ages ate like King Henry VIII. That isn't true. Did you know that they determined that at least at a few points in Vlad the Impaler's life he was basically living on a vegan diet? They ate a hell of a lot of vegetables and grains because meat was still expensive for everyone involved.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 175d
This. You had a steady diet of vegetables and bread. Maybe eggs if you had chickens and some small bit of land. Those times were harsh as fuck
vga@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 174d
Or our lives are abundant as fuck, which makes everything else look like absolute poverty.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 2 pts · 174d
Also they weren't guzzling wine and ale at all hours and when they did drink it was usually cut with water or what they called 'small beer' and very young wine (which didn't have time to properly fermented and reach full potency) that had limited alcohol content. Also they did drink water. In the same way that in places in the world where they have limited water treatment facilities they still drink water even if it isn't the best.
Again... they weren't stupid. They might not have had the depth and breadth of modern medical technology on how alcohol affects you, but people knew what it did and they know what addiction is (even if they made it out to be a personal weakness) and how terrible it was.
elbiter@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 175d
Hell no, he had brochettes almost every day...
Hlodwig@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 175d
Vlad, the real inventor of gyros/kebab
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 3 pts · 175d
Humans on a stick don't count!
JAPHacake@feddit.uk · 35 pts · 175d
More like a medieval king.
S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 32 pts · 176d
You're eating like Final Fight.
(Hits a trashcan)
Roasted chicken.
(Hits some tires)
Bread.
100% health let's go!!!
Maultasche@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 176d
Oh look, a lead pipe!
S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 175d
Haggard:
Oh yes I'm tournament viable now!
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 176d
Just don't drink out of it and you'll be okay.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 176d
Needs more golden carrot
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 29 pts · 176d
No utensils required
Drusas@fedia.io · 7 pts · 176d
Fun fact: the fork wasn't ubiquitous across Europe until the 1700s.
AHorseWithNoNeigh@piefed.social · 26 pts · 176d
AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 176d
Aeri@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 176d
If by "peasant" you mean "knight of the fucking round table" then yes
DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml · 21 pts · 175d
A medieval peasant would be wishing they could est like this.
mlg@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 175d
No one before the 1930s had access to such a large breed of chicken lol.
They probably would have confused this picture with a miniature Turkey.
Hule@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 175d
HA! A mini Anatolian peninsula, you say?
Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 174d
or a very lean goose
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 176d
A few things to unpack here.
There are innumerable ways to elevate this meal, but I'll keep this comment short. Anyone, feel free to message me or reply here if you want tips for that.
edinbruh@feddit.it · 7 pts · 176d
Plain bread is perfectly fine as long as it's not one of those super dry breads
ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 175d
Technically that's not bread. That's... Hm... Wheat buttscratcher? Anywho, a proper bread with no industrial processing is moist. :)
edinbruh@feddit.it · 2 pts · 175d
The 0.62€ industrial baguette I buy at Despar Is fine and not dry despite being industrial
ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 175d
How long does it keep the moistness? Is it still moist the next day? What about day after that?
edinbruh@feddit.it · 1 pts · 175d
The day after it's fine. The next day it's meh. Provided you keep it in a paper bag and not out in the air
ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 175d
Then it's slightly better industrial bread (was it baguette?), but yeah. Leavens or emulsifiers or weird making process lead to it. Like they also used one of the water retaining emusifiers instead of proper starch content - those tend to keep moistness for up to 48h since baking and then it evaporates instantly.
Non industrial bread keeps water longer, but more importantly loses it more gradually and from the outside in (so that at least the "core" is still moist).
(I'm not arguing pro/against breads here, or trying to, idk, shame you for buying baguettes lol, honestly just trying spread the knowledge)
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 175d
how so?
ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 175d
Crumb must be crumby, but "flesh" of the bread should be moist (do not confuse it with soft). Properly made bread shouldn't be wet or chewy.
When making bread you add water to the dough. Starch will keep the water and when baking, the flesh should retain it spread evenly. Industrial bread often dehydrates/dries it, as that's how it works with their emulsifiers or leavens - don't ask me why though, it's just my observation.
And you can be sure that dry bread is either old stale bread or fresh industrial bread.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 175d
a friend of mine brought me some self-made bread yesterday, and it was indeed moist, and i instantly loved it. i wish there's more bread like that one. idk why industrial bread tastes differently.
might be that they intentionally dessicate it for hygienic reasons? i.e. i imagine a higher water content might make it spoil faster.
ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 175d
No, on the contrary, but if improperly stored in the store it could get mold, and it's more expensive to make.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 175d
how so?
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 175d
This isn't plain bread, good sir, this is a baguette! Well, rather small one, but still.
arc99@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 175d
A lazy supermarket special - a roast chicken in a bag and a baguette roll picked up on the way to the checkout. We've all been there and I'm sure it makes a passable meal, but cooking is a skill everyone should endeavour to be proficient in.
chilicheeselies@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 175d
Yeah but lets face it, a supermarket rotisserie chicken is generally cheaper and better than a chicken roasted at home. I dont understand the economic of it, but its true. I have up roasting chicken at home because its just never as succulent
fairyfuzz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 175d
mister_flibble@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 175d
I've had good results with spatchcocking, which as a bonus also cuts the cook time in half.
pintsandsocks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 175d
The bachelor's handbag.
thethrilloftime69@feddit.online · 16 pts · 176d
You're going to be constipated
Themistocles@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 176d
Can confirm this will happen if you eat nothing but rotisserie chickens every day five days in a row
billwashere@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 176d
Ummmm…. story time?
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 176d
.... so I needed to go 5 days without pooping.....
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 176d
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 176d
Got it, only do four days in a row.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 176d
Just don't do what Adam Devine did and eat it so fast you forget to take off the string...
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 176d
The person for sure needs to learn how to cook
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 176d
They definitely bought that at a store in a bag. They are delicious.
Siegfried@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 176d
Peasants? That wpuld be a medieval noble
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 176d
Reminds me of a pretty recent game called Pentiment that's like an old school point and click adventure about a murder in a middle age German Abby where a bunch of conversations happen over meals & who you eat with can have an effect on a bunch if stuff in the game. it was pretty cool to include and I'm guessing they tried to go for some accuracy considering how much detail they use on the foods.
maltasoron@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 176d
Pentiment is so good
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 176d
Looks pretty good, but I'd like some BBQ sauce, at least.
the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 176d
Or hot sauce 🤤
rumba@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 176d
mix the BBQ and the hot sauce
Janx@piefed.social · 2 pts · 175d
I don't like you.
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 176d
I see you are a person of culture as well.
pitaya@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 176d
Somebody should invent hot BBQ sauce
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 176d
Not gonna lie but a hot honey marinade does not disappoint.
DrSleepless@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 176d
Minecraft dinner
Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 12 pts · 176d
Needs butter.
ickplant@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 176d
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 176d
........why does this gif exist???
rmuk@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 176d
Counterpoint: why am I only now finding out this gif exists?
87Six@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 176d
Idk but every one that I look for DOESN'T
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 176d
Just a normal breakfast.
heiligerbimbam@lemmy.wtf · 12 pts · 176d
😂 I don't think I eat that much meat in a whole month, but I also "cook" very simply. Quantity and taste are more important than style.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 175d
Lol no. How about porridge with water every day of the week.
criscodisco@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 175d
More like porridge with beer…made out of old porridge.
robocall@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 176d
That's a US$5 Costco rotisserie
Drusas@fedia.io · 6 pts · 176d
Here I was wondering what's wrong with roasting a chicken. Not the most advanced of cooking skills but not bad.
Aaand he didn't even cook the chicken.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 176d
A medieval king more like
sommerset@thelemmy.club · 8 pts · 175d
Bro where is the greens?
Ghostie@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 176d
moderatecentrist@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 175d
Add some veg, and some butter for the bread, and it's a good meal
lovely_reader@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 175d
A good meal for two, but a good meal nonetheless
Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 175d
Two? That's a whole ass chicken and a large loaf of bread. It's easily a meal for four if you add a few veggies into the mix.
lovely_reader@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 175d
I agree, but since some chickens are small and some people are big, I figured I'd err on the side on the minimum. It sure as shit ain't one guy, we agree on that!
PacMan@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 176d
A man Ron would be proud of
Janx@piefed.social · 6 pts · 176d
You've... heard of produce, right...?
cley_faye@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 176d
That's propaganda by Hulk (big green).
angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 176d
I'm a boy and...you need to learn how to cook.
87Six@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 176d
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 175d
You need some fiber dude, but other than that, the only other thing you're missing is a tankard of ale!
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 175d
It looks basic but quite tasty if the prep and spicing has been done right.
Not every good meal has to be a Michelin Star affair, y'know. Sometimes, all you need is fries and two kroketten to be satisfied.
jaennaet@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 175d
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 176d
Damn straight!! But a medieval peasant would also have beer or meade.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 175d
could use some vegetables. 8/10 because lack of said vegetables.
menas@lemmy.wtf · 5 pts · 175d
A medieval peasant wouldn't waste so much work for a single meal. S/he would make a broth of it, with vegetables to make it last for days
CreativeShotgun@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 176d
Am woman, would totally eat. Infact my dinner looks similar except my bread is liquid. And of course some broccoli and onions.
Janx@piefed.social · 1 pts · 175d
How... Is your bread liquid?
CreativeShotgun@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 174d
Beer!
cley_faye@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 176d
Dang, medieval peasant had it better than I thought.
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 4 pts · 175d
minecraft food:
red_tomato@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 176d
I’m a boy. I appreciate it.
davidagain@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 176d
I was a boy, and I appreciate it.
ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 176d
I've literally been doing this for lunches. Bake a loaf of bread, have a rotisserie chicken on hand for the week, a block of cheese. Boom. Lunch.
And when I have some more time or am tired of that, make some porridge with oats and chicken. Maybe a little broth, some onions, seasonings.
Dont underestimate peasant mode. Lunch for the whole week for like $12
ickplant@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 176d
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 176d
Grab a head of romaine next time, slice it up and rinse it and have it in the fridge so you can grab a handful to add to your sandwich or bed under your hot chicken to catch the juices. Maybe grab an apple while you're in the produce section.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 175d
I'd halve the chicken, skip the bread, and add a bunch of vegetables, and some cheese, but yeah. In fact, that is pretty much what I eat as my main meal at lunchtime every day.
okmko@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 176d
This was my Christmas dinner during Covid, lol. Pair it with Siracha and gravy from the roasting drippings and baby you got a stew going
BigDiction@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 176d
I don’t think there are any drippings. This looks like a Costco chicken with that ready to bake bread I’ve seen recently.
Drusas@fedia.io · 3 pts · 176d
Medieval peasant? Toss that sucker in a pot with some water. For the rest of eternity.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 176d
Sweet, sweet perpetual stew.
ieGod@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 176d
My kind of vegetable-less meal.
BetaBlake@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 176d
I can already tell this person lacks fiber
RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 176d
This is basically what I eat during the week except rice or legumes instead of bread and a green veggie.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 176d
Midaeval baron maxing
ptolemai@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 174d
Eating a medieval pheasant
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 176d
Did you cook it or did it slide out of a can?
oftenawake@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 175d
BaraCoded@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 175d
Mmm with mayo on the side
Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 176d
Skyrim lunch
Drusas@fedia.io · 2 pts · 176d
Needs more cheese wheels and cabbages.
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 176d
Aah yes
The bachelors handbag.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 176d
I don’t often do a whole chicken but I do often grab a pack of chicken wings (£1.50 for more than I can eat in a single sitting) and sling them in the air fryer for 20 minutes. Man, I love chicken wings.
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 175d
I sent this to my nephew, lol
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 176d
Foolish wench
JustTheWind@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 176d