Tudor+food+and+drink

=Tudor food and drink= ==Rich tudors eat vast amounts of meat, they don't it a lot of vegetables.The poor tudors ate lots more of vegetables they were a lot cheaper then meat.But above all that the poor were much more healthier then the rich! Henry VIII was a greedy king and stuffed his face with food and because of that he became very fat and people did not like him any more, poor people were healthier because rich people had a lot of sugar.==

=The Tudor had the best food than anyone, but poor people don't have that much food and they were starving to death.= =The Tudors are famous for their rich food, over eating and for their three hour meals, although it was only the rich nobility that could afford such luxury. Their food was often highly spiced and seasoned, both to show wealth, and to disguise the fact that the meat was often of very poor quality. Most people ate a great deal of meat, which was preserved by salting, smoking or drying. It was quite an unhealthy diet especially for the rich people as vegetables were not popular, the rich people thought that vegetables were suitable only for the poor people to eat. A lot of salt was used in preserving the huge amount of meat that they ate. A lack of vitamin A, found in green vegetables. milk, butter and eggs, often led to problems in later life. Rich people despised these foods because the lower classes ate them.= = =

=Poorer people still had meat, but not the wide variety of the rich. They would eat chickens which they could rear themselves, beef from the local market when they had the money, and rabbits which they could catch for themselves. They were encouraged to shoot rooks and crows because these birds destroyed crops and damaged the roof thatch on cottages and barns. Farm labourers were sometimes fed on "coloppes" - which were slices of bacon. They might also have meat they poached from the local landowners although this was dangerous as the penalties were severe if they were caught.=

=The main drinks were ale, cider, Perry, mead and wine, everyone avoided drinking water because it was very polluted, hypocras was a sweet liqueur imported from the Eastern Mediterranean; it was the most expensive drink of all and was served at Royal banquets and special occasions. Wine was also popular at Court but was too expensive for most people because it had to be imported from countries where it was warm enough for the grapes to grow. Wine was sometimes diluted with water, even though there was a risk of pollution, and was often served warm and spiced.=