[Tall_Texan]

Wanna see "dense food"? Try those Shepherd's Pies those Brits have been eating for friggin' centuries.

One local radio host says the news is now "all obesity, all the time" and I'm beginning to believe him. The Food Nazis are coming out of the woodwork.

[ijcr]

Look at the British menu from 1465,

"In September 1465, the enthronement of George Neville as Archbishop of York was celebrated at Cawood Castle to demonstrate the riches and power of his family, 28 peers, 59 knights, 10 abbots, 7 bishops, numerous lawyers, clergy, esquires and ladies, together with their attendants and servants arrived at the castle.

Counting the archbishop's own family and servants there were about 2500 to be fed at each meal.

They consumed 4000 pigeons and 4000 crays, 2000 chickens, 204 cranes, 104 peacocks, 100 dozen quails, 400 swans, 400 herons, 113 oxen, 6 wild bulls, 608 pikes and bream, 12 porpoises and seals, 1000 sheep, 304 calves, 2000 pigs, 1000 capons, 400 plovers, 200 dozen of the birds called "rees", 4000 mallards and teals, 204 kids, 204 bitterns, 200 pheasants, 500 partridges, 400 woodcocks, 100 curlews, 1000 egrets, over 500 stags, bucks and roes, 4000 cold and 1500 hot venison pies, 4000 dishes of jelly, 4000 baked tarts, 2000 hot custards with a proportionate quantity of bread, sugared delicacies and cakes.

300 tuns of ale were drunk, and 100 tuns of wine, a tun containing 252 gallons according to the usual reckoning. There must have been well over 60 pints of wine for each person.( not forgetting 180 pints of beer!)"


[R. Mitchell and M. Leys, A History of the English People, 1950]

This menu would drive PETA and the Fat Polizei stark staring bonkers.