• Damorte@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    A medieval peasant would be eating gruel, not fancy white bread (that’s for royalty basically) or the egg creating machine, because that’s what makes the eggs which you will also not eat because the royalty nicks them all as “taxes”.

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      9 hours ago

      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.