Make America Healthy Again
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Funny thing about salt and vinegar but back in the day these were essentials of Roman troop rations.
But the difference is they were very raw and very unrefined.
Legionary Rations by Paul Elliott If I were to spend a day in camp as a legionary of the 4th century, what would I be eating? In the legionary fort the soldier would eat as well as any civilian - if not better, supplied from a storehouse (horrea) inside the fort. Bread was the staple food, with vegetables and beef both proving popular additions. In northern Britain mutton was also popular, probably due to the prevalence of sheep in the locality. Pork was used across the Empire as a basic legionary foodstuff. There are books on Roman cookery, and that isn't what I'm interested in here. I want to know what a legionary carried with him to war, or out on patrol. What was camp cooking like? The Literary Sources The Codex Theodosius (7.4.11) dating from 360 states that troops on the move should receive hardtack biscuits (buccellatum), bread, ordinary wine (vinum) and sour wine (acetum), salted pork and mutton. It seems that hardtack and acetum would be consumed for two days, and on the third day the decent wine and bread would be eaten. Troops were ordered to collect twenty days rations from the state warehouses before a long campaign, and carry these rations themselves. We have other sources which tell us how bleak the marching diet was. Vegetius remarks that soldiers should have "corn (ie. wheat), wine, vinegar and salt at all times". That wheat ration will have come as hardtack biscuits. The Emperor Hadrian lived the life of a regular soldier for a while (SHA, Hadrian X, 2) and enjoyed "larido, caseo et posca", which was bacon fat, cheese and sour wine (also called acetum). Ammianus (xvii) also mentions buccellatum. Avidius Cassius, a general who rebelled against Marcus Aurelius, ordered his troops to carry nothing except "laridum ac buccellatum at que acetum", ie. bacon fat, hardtack and sour wine (Avidius Cassius, v, 3). Creating A Menu What kind of a menu can I create, then? Obviously, buccellatum (hardtack or wheat biscuits) will feature quite highly, as will bacon and lard. Using just those ingredients Northern troops in the American Civil War concocted "skilleegalee", hardtack crumbled into bacon and ho
Buy some pink unrefined Himalayan Salt Use it on all my foods
Amen Corporate American is killing Americans by a slow death
Rural America needs to be revived
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Now do Growls' sources, including all the times he's linked CNN stories.Look at this ignorant sheep linking to cnn.
