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| Jul 31, 2021 at 13:11 | comment | added | UKMonkey | The reason why these foods were dirt cheap, is because when the animal dies, it becomes rotten very quickly, and will make people ill. The transport and canning ability of the modern world was able to transform what was fed to only poor people and used to wash up on beaches 2 ft high - into something so desired it barely washes up on beaches at all now. I'd upvote, but the question is very specific - how to hide what the meat is. Still applicable now, see the semi-recent horse meat saga in the UK. | |
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| Jul 29, 2021 at 16:36 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | @JohnO There are cultural concerns, and individual variance too, I'm not arguing against these. I am arguing against you being unable to make food taste good to someone by changing how it is prepared. Even things that tastes putrid or that you have developed a taste aversion to, can be changed to taste good to you. How you cook (or don't cook) a thing changes its flavor and texture a lot. Maybe your medieval people don't like their bugs 1 way, that's fine, just prepare them another way instead. | |
| Jul 29, 2021 at 15:55 | comment | added | John O | It's not untrue. You belong to a (micro)culture that believes this to be the case... so they "taste horrible". You'd probably also object to eating raw/alive maggots and grubs, though there are people in the world who wouldn't, and think they taste "great". | |
| Jul 29, 2021 at 15:32 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | @JohnO Untrue. Unseasoned crawfish taste horrible. I've physically spit out crawfish that didn't get properly emerged in the boil when cooked, but seasoned and cooked right, they are one of my favorite foods. Raw oysters taste like slurping up a mouth full of snot, but give them to me charbroiled with cheese on top or cooked into a chowder and they are great. My wife thinks pork tastes like rotten chicken, but she loves it when cooked with a rub made from lemon pepper, paprika, and garlic. Any food can be made to taste good with the right seasonings, you just need to experiment. | |
| Jul 29, 2021 at 15:11 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | @ChrisH The food allergies of historical medieval figures are recorded proving that food allergies were known about. King John Lackland was allergic to peaches, King Richard III was allergic to strawberries, etc. Many lords also had personal physicians who took great care to record every meal their lord would eat to monitor the health of their masters in regards to what foods they ate. The two biggest reasons for these food logs was to identify honey's disease (diabetes) and allergies. | |
| Jul 29, 2021 at 14:27 | comment | added | John O | With very few exceptions (some substances that humans have evolved to recognize as putrid), taste/flavor is a matter of culture and familiarity. Making something "taste good" just can't happen as a culinary/chemical process. It's either something that those people accept as edible (in which case they decide that it tastes exotic) or as inedible (in which case they decide it tastes foul). Given that the assumption of this question is that it's inedible, just spicing it up won't change that. | |
| Jul 29, 2021 at 14:03 | comment | added | Chris H | @Nosajimiki I read a few articles, but only linked one. I mentioned knowledge in classical times in my previous comment; much classical medical knowledge was lost in much of Europe (and access to the remaining knowledge was patchy) so it would be reasonable to consider food allergies unknown in the "mediaeval Europe" that was tagged. Wikipedia in fact says that the work of Lucretius was almost lost during the middle ages. Also the sentence after the one you quote reads "However, food allergies were difficult to prove as they are notoriously inconsistent and often mimic unrelated ailments." | |
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| Jul 29, 2021 at 13:52 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | @ChrisH Your article explains that pollen allergies were not well understood until 150 years ago (people just thought they were colds... which they also did not understand), but says that food allergies have been generally known about for thousands of years. "what is food to one man is bitter poison to others." ~Lucretius (99–55 BCE) | |
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| Jul 29, 2021 at 13:36 | comment | added | Chris H | @GrumpyYoungMan in the modern world yes, but (with some exceptions in classical times) allergies have only been known about for ~150 years | |
| Jul 29, 2021 at 4:15 | comment | added | GrumpyYoungMan | Another important reason that the querent wouldn't want to disguise insect meat is that insects contain some of the same proteins as shellfish and can therefore trigger shellfish allergies. (e.g. brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/…) Giving customers unexpected allergic reactions or even anaphylactic shock is a sure way to go out of business fast. | |
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