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https://kopisusutwo.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/every-day-was-a-holiday-the-irish-peasant-diet/ wrote:What did they eat them with? Fresh milk or buttermilk, butter, salt, perhaps some onion. Along the coasts, especially, people added seaweed or fish when they could.
trotskyite wrote:"Adult males ate up to 14lbs of potatoes a day..... estimated at 7million tons a year to feed the population....as monotonous as the diet was the Irish were better nourished and healthier than other populations in the rest of Europe at the time"
From a sign at the famine museum Dublin I observed yesterday 14 lbs
greentea wrote:trotskyite wrote:"Adult males ate up to 14lbs of potatoes a day..... estimated at 7million tons a year to feed the population....as monotonous as the diet was the Irish were better nourished and healthier than other populations in the rest of Europe at the time"
From a sign at the famine museum Dublin I observed yesterday 14 lbs
I read about this in "Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent" Paperback – 2011
by John Reader
It was fascinating to read about how the potato influenced history.
Thrasymachus wrote:Is that a maximum number for exceptionally large males and not an average? I assume most people would blow up in weight eating that much potatoes.
Wow, 14 lbs a day, that is alot of mass to get through your mouth and digest. Uggh something like that is just not for me.
Thrasymachus wrote:Is that a maximum number for exceptionally large males and not an average? I assume most people would blow up in weight eating that much potatoes.
Risto wrote:Thrasymachus wrote:Is that a maximum number for exceptionally large males and not an average? I assume most people would blow up in weight eating that much potatoes.
6400 g of potatoes is about 4900 kcal, so about double the energy spent by a mostly sedentary modern man. Nothing unusual for physical labor, or very active athletes.
I read it too - highly recommend it.Pumpkin Pete wrote:I read about this in "Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent" Paperback – 2011
by John Reader
It was fascinating to read about how the potato influenced history.
I concur with this so much so that I have read the book twice.
Vegankit wrote:I read it too - highly recommend it.Pumpkin Pete wrote:I read about this in "Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent" Paperback – 2011
by John Reader
It was fascinating to read about how the potato influenced history.
I concur with this so much so that I have read the book twice.
The men weren't eating all those potatoes - part of their intake was alcohol they made using the potato according to both John Reader's book and another book I read that was someones PhD dissertation.
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