How did an emperor eat in ancient times?

Better or worse than the average middleclass man of the western world today?

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Emperor of which country? If we're talking about British empire then they probably ate some literal manure that even my dog wouldn't eat.

Imperial kitchen, Imperial recipe, etc. some secret stuff reserved only for royalty, don't most countries have this kind of stuff?

Fun fact: Peking duck used to be a royal cuisine before brought to masses, now it became average streetfood

Ancient times: nicer bread but still shit to us with a ton of fruit and olive oil on top

Middle ages: Similar except even more olive oil

Food was generally shit until trade between the east for dem spices got started

>Fun fact: Peking duck used to be a royal cuisine before brought to masses, now it became average streetfood

globalism

lol

>t.nigger

>Implying he was only asking about Western cusine though.
Yes I a. In complete aggreement, British food is literal bland tasing trash. The most palatable food they have is fish and chips and even the fish lacks any type of flavor unless it's fried. London broil has to be the lamest way to cook beef. Why are Italians, French, and Spanish(basically Iberia) the only white people that know how to cook well?

For most of middle ages food was quite bland even for upper classes. Lots of bread and lots of meat. The only difference between a noble meal and a peasant meal was that the noble was able to afford large quantities of food at any time. But the quality was generally same for both.

The average Cro-Magnon had a better diet than a modern western man...

If you count Mayan / Aztec / Olmec as ancient they ate way better. Especially the Aztecs.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_cuisine#Feasts

Literally any peasant that wasn't in a famine ate better than the HFCS and antibiotic saturated GMO trash that people over eat today. They also didn't poison themselves with fluoridated water.

>The average Cro-Magnon had a better diet than a modern western man...

Water was horrible in premodern times.

Fuck off Alex

>Why are Italians, French, and Spanish(basically Iberia) the only white people that know how to cook well?
Because of based maghrebi dna

>the British Empire had all the resources of multiple continents.
>THEIR FOOD IS STILL SHIT
HOW

They're British.

> They lived in a time and area that had plentiful meat-based protein, as well as fruits, legumes and tubers for mineral and vitamin intake. All natural, straight from the bone / earth,

> Modern western man eats sugar, hormone and antibiotic laced food, processed to high hell and back.

> Somehow modern diet is more healthy and better for you...

Wew laddie boy...

Emperors ate Far far worse. Technology/global trade has made anything available pretty much everywhere. Average person today has access to so many different types of food/ingredients it would fuck an ancient persons mind.

Also technology has allowed food to be grown, preserved and cooked in far superior ways to what we had back then.

Speak for yourself whitey

depends on the time and place but generally speaking lots of variety and lots of food

Rich people in previous eras ate like madmen, because there were all kinds of weird animals being learnt about and no taboo about eating them

lol

Here's an information about the Tudor period (300 years before the height of the British Empire)

>The Sumptuary Law of 31 May 1517 dictated the number of dishes per meal: a cardinal could serve nine dishes, while dukes, marquises, bishops and earls could serve seven. Lower-ranking lords were permitted to serve only six, and the gentry class three.

>A dish contained a set amount of a particular item – for example, one swan, bustard or peacock (reserved for the higher ranks of nobility), but four smaller fowl, or 12 very small birds, such as larks.

also the quality of cooking was obviously quite high:
>In 1527, Cardinal Wolsey served a superlative feast for the French embassy, including subtleties of castles, of the church and spire of St Paul’s, of “beasts, birds, fowls of diverse kinds, personages… some fighting… some leaping… some dancing”, and a whole chess set of sugar paste, which the French delighted in so much it was boxed up and sent home with them.

So basically rich people ate very well

Tiberius loves cucumbers. He ordered those fruits be served is his every meal.

That doesn't explain France though. French food is still pretty based.i guess they are the only other Europeans who took advantage of that spice trade as soon as possible.

>The Sumptuary Law
Do caste/social hierarchy systems make people autistic or something?
Indians are another example of social autism, and they have strict castes as well.

Better than the american """middleclass""", sure. Better than the european middleclass, no.

In the bible it is described that they would hire bakers and shit to make them delicacies.

Even in those times delicacies were found in palaces but Veeky Forums didn't know this one.

not really ancient but
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchu_Han_Imperial_Feast

>cro-magnon times
>live in small family group with a couple of mates
>its winter, no fruits anywhere
>went out hunting but the saber tooth mauled my buddy bad and now we're carrying him back to camp
>Damnit another day of no food
a-a-atleast there aren't chemicals to turn the frogs gay...

Food quality today is at an all time low nothing but msg, food coloring, hfcs, sugar, chemicals, and aspartame. ppl tend to view evolution as something linear but let me tell you something humanity is de-evolving

well it depends really. the hunter gatherer diet was very good, there's no disputing that. Infact pre-agrarian revolution humans probably had the healthiest and most satisfied lives of all

then agrarian revolution humans had a shit time unless they were nobility.
>limited diet means many under-nourished
>very often subject to food shortages (aggravated by the limited diet)
>literally backbreaking labour to tend to the crops that give you this limited diet
>have more kids to help with labour --> need to farm more --> even more backbreaking labour

then industrial revolution humans took an even bigger hit.

Nowadays we have conquered one of the biggest of the food related challenges we had which is availability. You're more likely to die of an obesity-related condition than starve to death. However poor people continue to eat a lot of shit. The average person now, however, is more likely than at any time post-agrarian revolution to have access to a varied and healthy diet. Whether they choose to spend their money on shitty fructose syrup infused stuff and bigmacs instead is up to them

>well it depends really. the hunter gatherer diet was very good

lol no, meat is incredibly bad for you

>Infact pre-agrarian revolution humans probably had the healthiest and most satisfied lives of all

lol

>then agrarian revolution humans had a shit time unless they were nobility.

correct but even the nobility had it bad

>then industrial revolution humans took an even bigger hit.

lol no they did not, their lives improved vastly

There's nothing intrinsically wrong about chemicals and apart for a tiny fraction of people there's no danger from aspartame.