How did that Thang smell in the 1700s

[CinnaSlim]

What options did they have that we don't have now? That's the post I was replying to. The poster said they had access to much more nutrient foods than we do now.

I'm gonna need specific examples of foods that we cannot eat today that we could in the 1700s


Hey if I'm wrong i'll gladly accept it. I like learning new things.
Maybe there were some super healthy foods that are extinct today

One example is iceberg lettuce, no nutritional value. Just massed produced.
Soda
Candy
Bleached flour, so pretzels, pizza, white bread, dyed brown wheat bread, canned biscuits, pasta,
GMO corn, tortilla chips, anything that's mosty high fructose corn syrup,
Heat pasteurized fruit juices
Basically all the stuff you find in a corner store.

 

[Gold]

You are the second person to take that seriously. I think people take things too serious here. When people say they had "real food" back then, they just mean their meat ate what was in their natural diet, not force fed, GMO corn, soy and woodchips wasn't filled with antibiotics, hormones and ammonia, the food wasn't filled with preservatives and fillers like cellulose, wasn't GMO or made up of stuff developed in a lab.

We may be "healthier" because of modern medicines, but the medical treatment is usually for illnesses caused by the food.

I'm not entirely sure what point you are trying to make here.

If I want to eat a diet void of GMO products, high fructose corn syrup, preservatives etc, I can... rather easily.
You talk about medical treatment for illnesses caused by food... what about dysentery and cholera if you want to talk about illnesses caused by the food and water?

We cant mention 1 and ignore the others

 

[Gold]

One example is iceberg lettuce, no nutritional value. Just massed produced.
Soda
Candy
Bleached flour, so pretzels, pizza, white bread, dyed brown wheat bread, canned biscuits, pasta,
GMO corn, tortilla chips, anything that's mosty high fructose corn syrup,
Heat pasteurized fruit juices
Basically all the stuff you find in a corner store.

no... I asked for options that they had then that we dont have now, not options that we have now that they dont.

 

[ZoeGod]

Moral of the thread white people historically were filthy animals with poor hygiene spreading plagues and syphilis to each other. They breath probably stank like death.

 

[CinnaSlim]

I don't use soap I don't stink it's all about diet....Cold water is just enough

For real real, or for play play?

I'm not entirely sure what point you are trying to make here.

If I want to eat a diet void of GMO products, high fructose corn syrup, preservatives etc, I can... rather easily.
You talk about medical treatment for illnesses caused by food... what about dysentery and cholera if you want to talk about illnesses caused by the food and water?

We cant mention 1 and ignore the others

idk breh, you are African right? So our perspectives are different. Growing up poor and broke. Organic food wasn't easily available and still isn't in a lot of places. People suffer from food deserts. There's no Whole Foods, Wegman's or Trader Joe's in the hood.

What about it?

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

What options did they have that we don't have now? That's the post I was replying to. The poster said they had access to much more nutrient foods than we do now.

I'm gonna need specific examples of foods that we cannot eat today that we could in the 1700s


Hey if I'm wrong i'll gladly accept it. I like learning new things.
Maybe there were some super healthy foods that are extinct today

I interpreted that the post meant higher nutritional value due to a lot of the food being eaten immediately after being harvested or butchered, as opposed to the nutritional value waning by sitting on the shelf......

Also, you have to consider that most food was grown locally and the big business methods of agriculture/meat industry weren't being used...

 

[Another Man]

So we're gonna act like cacs didn't even have proper hygiene until they invaded places like America and Africa?

 

[Gold]

For real real, or for play play?

idk breh, you are African right? So our perspectives are different. Growing up poor and broke. Organic food wasn't easily available and still isn't in a lot of places. People suffer from food deserts. There's no Whole Foods, Wegman's or Trader Joe's in the hood.

What about it?

Aight... i'm done.

This whole thing is silly... if people believe that they cannot live a healthy lifestyle in 2015 outside of time-travel, i'll let them cook.


I'll stay with my egusi and suya

 

[CinnaSlim]

What options did they have that we don't have now? That's the post I was replying to. The poster said they had access to much more nutrient foods than we do now.

I'm gonna need specific examples of foods that we cannot eat today that we could in the 1700s


Hey if I'm wrong i'll gladly accept it. I like learning new things.
Maybe there were some super healthy foods that are extinct today

To answer this question, they had access to organic fresh fruits and vegetables. They either grew their own or they knew the land and where to get it or barter for it.

The fruits and veggies readily available to most or processed and treated for example most apples and oranges on the market are months old by the time they hit the shelves.

 

[Gold]

I interpreted that the post meant higher nutritional value due to a lot of the food being eaten immediately after being harvested or butchered, as opposed to the nutritional value waning by sitting on the shelf......

Also, you have to consider that most food was grown locally and the big business methods of agriculture/meat industry weren't being used...

As someone who kills goats and eats them (1 or 2 times a year. It cost less if you kill it yourself instead of paying the butcher to)... there is nothing exclusive to the 18th century when it comes to butchering or eating immediately. If I go back home i'm buying food from the village market. Hell I can drive to Garland or Houston if I want and get village food easily there.

But I feel like my original point has been lost somewhere in this mess so I'll let yall cook

 

[CinnaSlim]

Aight... i'm done.

This whole thing is silly... if people believe that they cannot live a healthy lifestyle in 2015 outside of time-travel, i'll let them cook.


I'll stay with my egusi and suya

No one was even saying that, you're being condescending, right now

 

[Gold]

To answer this question, they had access to organic fresh fruits and vegetables. They either grew their own or they knew the land and where to get it or barter for it.

The fruits and veggies readily available to most or processed and treated for example most apples and oranges on the market are months old by the time they hit the shelves.

You can go to a farm and buy apples directly, done it before.
You can grow your own fruits and vegetables
You can order organic, fruits and vegetables directly from farms online.

These options are still present in 21st century society.

I feel like you and @Peter Vecsey are trying to argue a point that I'm not debating. I simply responded to a patently false notion and now its turned into about 10 post of me saying the exact same thing over and over again.

 

[Gold]

No one was even saying that, you're being condescending, right now

This is what I was responding to from the jump

The truth, is that people in general had a far higher grade of nutrition to select from.

Which I took to mean, the overall selection that the average person had available to them in that time was a far higher grade of nutrition. The key words being "to select from"
-If you want to eat donuts and soda every day of your life that's 1 thing.
-If donuts and soda are the only things sold to you that's something else.

If I misunderstood his post, then I apologize


But it's never my intention to be condescending. I apologize if I came off that way.

I have no issue with conceding that am I wrong when the facts present themselves.

I legit had no idea the vagina was self-cleaning. I was wrong.

 

[The 2020 New Member]

If we're talmbout slaves it prolly smelled like fresh cotton.

 

[Zombi_Jeezus]

Lol every time I watch a sex scene set way back in the days I'm always like"damn that whole room probably smells like funky carne guisada." Like how can they stay in the mood when that musty funk hits em as soon as the under garments hit the floor. You know mufukkas STANK back then that's why they would walk around with handkerchiefs drenched in perfumes to keep under their nose.