2006-10-31 06:09:07 · 5 answers · asked by tyianna m 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
Local foods, that would mean alot of venison, squirrel, rabbit and a variety of fowl (goose, duck, turkey, and pheasent). As to vegetables those they carried with them and the ones that they came across and lots of squash and corn. And the same as you have today. Intresting fact, there is a law written in early colonial times that stated you could not force your servants to eat lobster more than 4 meals a week. So lots of seafood. Can you imagine that in thier lives lobster was pleantiful that a law was passed to protect your servants from them. Funny eh.
2006-10-31 06:25:37 · answer #1 · answered by Casca 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most every one planted some type of grains & vegetables.
In Colonial Times you would eat alot of corn. If you lived by the sea you might eat lobsters, clams or other sea food. People who lived inland would eat fish, rabbits, squirrels, bear, deer, fowl and other wild game. Most people also grew fruits and vegatables.
People drank a lot of different drinks too. You could drink water, cow or goats milk, cider,or beer.
What you ate and drank depended on how rich or poor you were and other things such as weather the harvest depended on the weather cooperating and how the game was affected by the seasons. It could also depend on how much game there was in the region.
2006-10-31 20:53:30 · answer #2 · answered by Smurfetta 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lots of meat and potatoes (they didn't have to be carb conscious becasue they burned it all up walking everywhere and doing everything manually!) Fresh baked bread, poultry, eggs, root vegetables (potatoes, carrots, turnips, rutabagas, etc.) They harvested tomatoes, corn, cauliflower, etc in the summer and pickled them (in vingear) to have in the winter months. Leftovers were stored in a cool place and remade into pot pies and hash the next day.
2006-10-31 14:16:19 · answer #3 · answered by sassy n 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a lot of nasty british food. like yorkshire pudding. its milk and eggs and flour with meat stock. yum yum.
they were actually dependent on the native population to feed them -- kind of like thanksgiving -- then they killed the natives -- the part of the thanksgiving story they leave out.
2006-10-31 14:33:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
trail kill and buffalo chips (dong)
2006-10-31 14:17:08 · answer #5 · answered by cliffie 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋