Ivan Prieto أُعيد تغريده
Slaves in Rome ate bread, olives, and porridge.
The Roman nobility ate meat.
Egyptian labourers built the pyramids on bread, onions, and beer.
The pharaoh ate meat.
Aztec peasants ate maize and beans.
The Aztec nobility ate meat.
Chinese peasants ate rice and greens.
The Chinese nobility ate meat.
Indian lower castes ate rice, lentils, and flatbread.
The Mughal court ate meat.
Feudal Japanese peasants ate rice and pickles.
The samurai ate fish and meat.
Native American farmers ate corn and squash.
The warrior cultures ate bison.
Medieval European serfs ate pottage and black bread.
The lords ate venison and swan.
Tudor commoners ate bread cut with chalk.
The court of Henry VIII consumed thousands of cattle a year.
Victorian working class ate bread, tea, and whatever was left.
The Victorian aristocracy ate beef, game, and butter.
Every civilisation. Every century. Every continent.
The poor ate the plants.
The rich ate the animals.
Then in 1977, a committee of American senators told the world that the peasant diet was the healthy one all along.
No civilisation in human history had figured this out.
Until then.
Apparently.
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