The Role Of Meals In The Victorian Era

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What did the Victorians consider a good meal? Victorians thought that rich meals were the best because they cost more and had more extra ingredients. Victorian people needed to be rich and have a lot of money to be able to eat big and fancy meals.
What did the Victorians eat during the Victorian Era? “Rich victorians would feast on significant amounts of food at every meal so they are full” (author). “They mainly ate fish and meat at full meals.” (author). Evening meals were eaten late in the evening so people weren’t hungry when they went to bed. They ate weird foods during the Victorian Era. “They ate cucumber sandwiches, sheep trotter, eels, pickled oysters, bloaters, and hot tea” (author). Victorians also ate these weird foods called meat
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They ate fish, meat, and vegetables at every meal because they considered it healthy. “In the afternoon they drank tea that was called “afternoon tea”(author). They drank tea at every meal. Around three in the afternoon they drank tea called “High tea” which was drunk in the middle of the day. They drank tea and ate tea even if they were poor. The Victorians drank donkey’s milk, rice milk, blood, and ginger beer. The victorians drank blood because they thought it would build up on the sicknesses in their body and heal them. They would only drink the blood if it is hot. The upper class had their own tea that they drank at a certain time of the day. The lower class would drink a special tea and eat it at a different time of the day than the upper class. The upper class was much higher than the lower class.
Victorian people needed to be rich and have a lot of money to eat big and fancy meals. What did the Victorians eat during the Victorian Era? Rich victorians ate large meals and poor victorians ate small meals. “What did they drink and what food did they eat?” The Victorians ate big and fancy meals unlike Americans do today.

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