What did travelers eat in medieval times? #history

[bruhman]

In lithuania, kebabs and shawarmas are a savior dish in our country, there are stands in almost every part of Vilnius except the city center

[gilbertotoledo]

Mexican here, like you mentioned tacos are big in mexico, tacos of several different varieties. But there are also Quesadillas which is good food on the go as once the cheese cools and hardens it holds the quesadilla's filling (like meat or veggies) in place. Empanadas are another good one (basically a turnover) as its like a pie and can be filled with meat and cheese or fruit.we also have Tamales which are corn dough dumplings that are cooked wrapped in corn leaves. So it already comes in it's own wrapper for taking with you and there are different types of fillings as well. Mexican workers usually buy these as a quick breakfast in the morning from street vendors.

[gipsymelody]

medieval ages: probably dried and smoked and salted meat!
jams and honey cause they not really spoil.
dried fruits and even dried veggies!
bread and biscuit very drie ones!

dried meath can be good over 2-3 months!

steet food? well totaly same than the fast food... you get humburger hotdog gyros in europe.

[SparkleLuna]

UK resident here. I was surprised to hear that in America pie is considered mainly as a sweet dish. When I think of pie I immediately think of some form of meat pie or pastie (ie Cornish pastie etc). Fruit pies exist here of course but I’d definitely think savoury first.

[horizønmusics]

In Puerto Rico, our streets food are quite tasty! We have empanadillas, which are fried meat and cheese filled pastries. Bacalaítos, which are codfish fritters. And pinchos, grilled chicken dressed in barbecue sauce on a stick!

[gxzia]

Food inside the home has always been a low priority for more densely populated areas and even for reasonable clustered villages with a baker.

The cost to create a large bread oven was usually sufficiently high enough that there would just be one or two centrally located and anybody could use it. The baker was tasked with working it, keeping the flame alive, and preparing much of the actual baked goods and stews. People might stop by in the morning and leave their unbaked pies or breads with the baker and pay him a small coverage to have it ready by mid day or they would just stop by at midday. After breakfast this was usually the most falorically intensive meal and if there was meat (which isn’t a given in this time period as even when meat was plentiful people spent as much as half the year fasting or restricting meat intake for cultural reasons) then it would likely be at the midday meal. The baker was paid a base rate to maintain the large baking ovens and then were also paid an additional quantity for each good they sold, prepared, or finished.

This story is more complicated in the highest density areas where eating out was very common. For example the coliseum has events going on about 1 out of every 3 days and it was very common to attend regularly. Inside the stadium there were numerous food vendors including a variety of sit down fast food type options including one thing that very much resembles something like hotpot where a new pot of broth would be placed into an opening on a counter at which the customer sat anf under which there was a wood fire. The attendant would then add desired items to the broth which would then be eaten there before a new customer took a seat. There were also numerous grills including self-service grills scattered throughout and vendors providing prepared marinated meats and vegetables for the grill as well as varieties of bread and condiments. What we get today is on another level but it’s not categorically different from the lives of people throughout much of the past 6000 years and differs mostly be degree and convenience.

[reubenwheeler]

In New Zealand, meat pies are an icon of quick food, you can get them from a dairy (corner store), bakeries and cafes. We refer to them as just "pies", if someone says I am going to get a pie, we automatically think of a meat pie, we rarely eat sweet pies.

[Deamonfreddy]

In Philippines we called street foods because they are everywhere and there is some vendors who are walking in streets selling some street food from drivers

[SoRRoWSTaRR]

Meat pies are actually delicious. Stuff like Uzibeki Samsa, Russian Chebureki, and stuffed baquettes are very similar and also very good. Some of my favorite foods.

[Pb.milkshake]

in algeria, we have something called french tacos its just a burrito without beans and rice, we also have the frit-omlet wich is fries and eggs thrown into bread (baguette)




PS: yes i know we have a lot of french things and its because france colonized algeria for 130 years, and over 8 million people died

[technomad-]

So very sad gringos never leave their cars😂

[Ktty_sparklez]

I’m from America and my grandma always makes chicken pie on sundays

[kins]

Street food. Faratha, Dhol purri, fried noodles, fried cakes

[bigmanmccheez]

In Ireland we don't really have street food that often outside of special events.
Because I'm from the far west of the country, this street food at festivals and events is usually fish of some kind. A lot of mackerel and muscles mostly, with boiled potatoes and a lemon.
Other options would be some kind of stew occasionally, but that is very rare. We do also have burgers but who wants a burger when you have fresh fish available that was caught a few hours ago?

[ababodboody]

We use to make spinach pie and it's awesome

[nooblonium]

pluh needs a bigger audience this is gas

[technomad-]

In Thailand it's more expensive to rent a flat with a kitchen than to eat out

[Regenalduck]

The Greggs sausage roll keeps us brits going 🇬🇧

[lilyayora]

I'm Dutch, traditionally the go to street food was always pickled herring. You cannot go anywhere without a herring stand with old folks gobbling them down 😂

[kaenryuuart]

“What the fast food culture is like in your country”

I’m sourh east asian. So that should tell you all you need to know