re: Medieval farmers ate 7000-9000 calories a dsy

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Medieval farmers ate 7000-9000 calories a dsy

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That's when tren was invented.

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It’s not possible. Whoever believes that or wrote that has no idea the scale of production that incurs.

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Chopping wood or fetching water from the river would give most on this board a heart attack. Thats probably how these baws started their day.

I dont doubt these estimates for one second.

Anyone that has cleared land with hand tools or chopped/split wood with a weighted splitting maul, or bailed hay knows this.

is love to know how they came up with this number

A. How do they know this?
B. Wasn’t the average man only 5’3 or so back then?

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I think you're purposely ignoring glaring logic just to fall on Sir Lancelot's sword here.

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What logic is that?

I mean you’re not wrong about most of these posters… but “medieval farmers ate 7000-9000 calories a day”? Think about that. That’s not sustainable in any sized culture when you factor in population size, tools, crop yield, etc. per capita. Key word being per capita. Even in todays massive abilities of several of those factors, we couldn’t sustain that (once again that’s per capita, so it’s normalized).

Absolute bullshite of an OP

Forget the butter. It would be too labor intensive. Think about the seasonal milk production and not letting it go to waste...make cheese and store it for late fall and winter usage.
Now let's butcher an old animal with fatty tissues: first you are going to eat the organ meats. Then the tough muscles go into stews (crack the bones and enjoy the marrow). All that fat isn't going to waste. If you are wealthy, some of it might be made into soap. Most will go into use as food, sopped up by bread (not all bread was wheat based. Regionally other grains were more productive and dependable.
The grains that were used for beer and other alcoholic drinks, after the alcohol happened, the leftovers became animal feed or sorts of heavy 'breads'.

If you ever go to Louisberg on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, (like Williamsburg but French and fewer tourists), they sell a hard tack bread that is close to what their settlers ate. But if the baker is in a chatty mood he'll tell you that the real thing was so hard most people couldn't bite into it much less chew it. It would have been edible dunked in a stew.

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What logic is that?

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Keep posting, Longshanks

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4 medium Domino's pepperoni pizzas are less than 8000 calories.

Where on earth did a community grow that much grain to bake that much bread per day? for an average farmer/laborer?

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A single large Papa Murphy's pizza is over 3000 calories and I can polish one off by myself.

If I was working in the fields all day I could see eating two or three of them.

*No, I'm not a fatass.

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Chopping wood or fetching water from the river would give most on this board a heart attack. Thats probably how these baws started their day.

I dont doubt these estimates for one second.

Anyone that has cleared land with hand tools or chopped/split wood with a weighted splitting maul, or bailed hay knows this.

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The average young male field hand slave working cotton fields in the south or cane plantations in the Caribbean required around 4k a day to maintain. I have a hard time believing that Medieval sustenance farmers in general required double those calories.

And if they did it was a circular problem because the only reason they would need to burn that many calories is to use them to grow more food so they could eat 9k calories a day.