re: Medieval farmers ate 7000-9000 calories a dsy

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Eh, a butter sandwich gets you about 350 calories. Two slices of bread and two pats of butter. Add a slice of cheese and you're at 500. A slice of ham gets you to 700.

I could easily eat 10 of those in a day in a total of less than an hour.

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I realize your response was directed at someone addressing the consumption side of the argument, but that isn't what makes it implausible. It's easy to concoct methods for consuming that many calories. The problem is burning them, which, ostensibly, they did, because it's difficult to perform the kind of routine necessary to burn 9k calories a day when you're too fat to get out of bed.

So the questions become, how the hell were they averaging so many calories, why did they devote so much labor to pursue calories that were only needed to produce those calories, and just how incredibly productive were these medieval farms?