On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 16:27:42 -0600, "cshenk" > wrote:

>Fruitiest of Fruitcakes wrote:
>
>> I don’t think Anglo Saxon cuisine was that bad.
>>
>> Remember that wild animals would have tasted much stronger than the
>> bland meat such as chicken we endure today.
>>
>> I’ve no idea what Pike tastes like, or Eels and Perch for that
>> matter, but they couldn’t have been too bad or their bones would not
>> have been found in piles around known settlements.
>>
>> Ok, so they didn’t have sugar; but they had honey to sweeten things,
>> plus a multitude of edible berries at different times of year.
>>
>> Just because there is a national myth that our ancestors lived on
>> turnips doesn’t mean we have to believe that as well.
>>
>> Wild garlic would have been plentiful in the hedgerows if they wished
>> to add it to the cooking pot.
>
>England and other parts of Western europe show as first Argiculture,
>wheat, rye, oats, peas, lentils and 3 others I have forgotten. It
>suprised me that Cabbage doesnt make a blip for another 8,000 years.

I think you should write a book. Call it "The cshenk Perspective". It
will be a cult hit!