this post was submitted on 21 May 2024
51 points (98.1% liked)
Asklemmy
43148 readers
1694 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy ๐
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- [email protected]: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I'm not really confident about what qualifies as "common food" or "typical western diet", nor the accuracy of the following sources, but I feel like if someone's going to answer OP, they should have something to back it up.
Onions - 5,500 years ago
http://www.vegetablefacts.net/vegetable-history/history-of-onions/
Sugar - 6,000 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sugar
Beans - 7,000 years ago
https://cablevey.com/history-of-dried-beans-how-it-all-started/
Corn - 10,000 years ago
https://cropcareequipment.com/blog/corn-farming-history/
Potatoes - 13,000 years ago
https://spudsmart.com/domestication-of-the-potato/
Around here (Sweden) I would bet a bit that any fish from the Baltic Sea is both common and super old member of the diet for the population around the water. Salmon is also a great contender being found in the rivers as well.
Any of the easily hunted animals that are still around, don't know if it's "common" if it's seen as a delicacy outside of hunting families though
I think fish is a likely winner - it's something we likely hunted and gathered and continue to consume in generally the same format over the years.
Rice - 13,500 to 8,200 years ago China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice
Wheat - as early as 21,000 BC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat