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      Editing … "Food was much more plentiful in the American South than in England. Meat was plentiful, and everyone—rich and poor—ate several meat dishes a day. Typical dishes among the upper classes were fricassees of various meats with herbs."
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      Editing … "Baked beans and pease porridge were everyday fare, particularly during the winter, and usually eaten with coarse, dark bread. At first, it was made with a mixture of wheat and maize (corn), but a disease struck in the 1660s called wheat rust, after which it was made of rye and maize. Vegetables with meat boiled thoroughly was a popular dish. Baking was a favorite method of cooking, and New England was the origin of dishes today seen as quintessentially American, such as apple pie and baked Thanksgiving turkey."
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      Editing … "The backcountry relied heavily on a diet based on mush made from soured milk or boiled grains. Clabber, a yogurt-like food made with soured milk, was a standard breakfast dish and was eaten by backcountry settlers of all ages."
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      Editing … Oatmeal mush was a popular meal in the British borderlands and remained popular in America. The only difference was that the oatmeal was replaced by corn, and is still known today in the South as grits. Cakes of unleavened dough baked on bakestones or circular griddles were common and went by names such as "clapbread", "griddle cakes" and "pancakes".
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      Editing … Wheat, the grain primarily used in English bread, was almost impossible to grow in the North, and imports of wheat were expensive.[36] Substitutes included corn (maize) in the form of cornmeal. The johnnycake was generally considered a poor substitute for wheaten bread, but was accepted by residents in both the northern and southern colonies.
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      Editing … Those on the "rice coast" ate ample amounts of rice, while the southern poor and slaves used cornmeals in breads and porridges. Wheat was not an option for most poorer residents in the southern colonies.
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      Editing … "Food was much more plentiful in the American South than in England. Meat was plentiful, and everyone—rich and poor—ate several meat dishes a day." Until I was an adult the only real meat I got was at my grandparents house on a Sunday for lunch.
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      Editing … damn nod, maybe that's why you're so healthy
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      Editing … *was* lol
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      Editing … But no, I ate cheap shit and frozen pizza, we had no money. Maybe I love steak so much now because I never had any as a child?
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      Editing … Oh god now I'm having flashbacks of the cheap frozen burgers my mam bought. 12 in a box for £1.
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