Top Five Elizabethan Era Foods and Drinks Blog

Top Five Elizabethan Era Foods and Drinks Blog

Ah, food. The one thing every human loves, some more than others. The rich get the red meat, and the fancy poultry like swan and geese, and the poor get bread, soup and chicken. 

Peasant food

1563

Colourized

5. Bread

Everybody eats bread. Poor or rich, young or old, boy or girl. Everyone eats bread. From the 1500s to 2018 bread is still enjoyed by billions of people around the world.

4. Fish

Fish days were common during the Elizabethan era. “Elizabeth made a law in 1563 that compelled everyone to eat fish on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays” (Sharnette, 1988-2018). Mostly rich people ate fish but poor people were forced to because of this law. The fish they ate included freshwater and sea fish, such as salmon, trout, eel, pike, and sturgeon, and shellfish such as crabs, lobsters, oysters, cockles and mussels. (Sharnette, 1988-2018).

3. Goose

The rich ate geese. Geese. Of all poultry they eat Canada’s national bird. Like why? They had chicken but they had to eat geese because they were rich.

2. Pigeons

Looks surprisingly like a chicken. Not good to eat them since the feces of these pestering pigeons are home to many dangerous bacteria. Like I said before why eat pigeon when you have chickens?

 1. Ale

This was the most surprising of all. Everybody drank ale. Everybody. Didn't matter whether you were rich or poor, old or young everyone drank ale. Why? Simple, the water wasn't safe to drink.

Works Cited

Sharnette, Heather. “CITING INFO.” Elizabethi.org, 1988-2018, www.elizabethi.org/contents/citing.html.