I’ve seen contradictory accounts of whether medieval peasants were able to eat meat on a regular basis. Some say that pork and fish were fairly affordable for medieval peasants, but others say that fish and meat was out of reach of peasants, and they had to risk poaching on the lord’s land to get meat. Which is true? Or were both true depending on time/place?
/u/BRIStoneman has previously answered How much did meat cost in the Middle Ages?
/u/gothwalk has previously answered What did European peasants typically eat prior to the age of exploration? How would they deal with the monotony? and Before the industrial revolution, how common was raising and eating meat in the diet of an average person? Or was it mostly something the rich got to eat?
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