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[–] Blue_Morpho 99 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Given the hygiene and food safety during the Victorian era, a taco bell burrito would be the cleanest food that child has ever eaten.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Counter point, that kid is not ready for advanced spices like cumin.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cumin has been used as a spice in the Middle East and India for 1000s of years and was introduced to the Americas by the Spanish in the 1500s.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You mean chicken tikka masala?

[–] Peasley 3 points 1 day ago

National Dish of Scotland!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wasn't that when Europe was colonizing everyone to get spices?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Spice was for trade, not food from my understanding.

[–] Peasley 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Victorian recipies use cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, mace, and long pepper pretty often.

I think surviving recipes are almost all upper-class food, so regular people maybe used more salt and herbs than actual spices.

[–] ChicoSuave 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Peasley 1 points 1 day ago

True. Probably lots more pickles and ferments than most people eat now

[–] currycourier 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sure, but the bacteria they'd be used to from back then would probably be fairly different from the bacteria we're used to today.

[–] Blue_Morpho 2 points 1 day ago

I'm not sure it would be different enough to matter. Otherwise diseases like the bubonic plague wouldn't be consistent throughout the past thousand years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Imagine if that child grew up and invented Taco Bell, they truely won the franchise wars by using time travel.