What Did The First Settlers In America Really Eat?

A typical American settler meal probably didn't involve canned cranberry, stuffing, and pumpkin pie, so what did they actually eat? Let's find out.
#Fruits #Vegetables #Meats
Apples | 0:00
Peaches | 1:48
Pork | 2:29
Kitchen garden vegetables | 3:24
Bread & grains | 4:08
Game meat | 5:04
Dairy products | 5:58
Molasses and maple syrup | 6:43
Corn | 7:40
Potatoes | 8:34
Seafood | 9:18
Soup and stew | 10:18
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[@MashedFood]

What do you think of the diet that the first settlers lived on?

[@bloqk16]

One could assume the first settlers would eat nearly anything they could get their hands on that were edible.

[@KFrost-fx7dt]

Apples grow wild in Colorado from the foothills through the mountains alone paths that miners and settlers took going west. Whenever you see a random apple tree, that's where someone tossed a core, or had a homestead.

[@Ripplenator]

A lot of people have never tried rabbit or squirrel, as they are not typically found in the meat dept. of their local supermarkets. They actually are delicious!

[@speerrituall1]

When my son was small, I could never tell him that he was eating rabbit. He would always equate it with eating Buggs Bunny.

[@Ripplenator]

@@speerrituall1 lol When my dad would come home with a bunch of squirrels he shot, my little sister would be upset. Squirrels (like all furry creatures) are cute, so he would tell her he only killed the "mean" squirrels.

[@tammyporte755]

My mom used to cook rabbit and squirrel. My kids liked it.

[@KFrost-fx7dt]

Out local chain has rabbit, quail, pheasant, and frog legs in season. No squirrel though!

[@user-oe6wq7pu8d]

Corn and rye is commonly called injun bread and the favorite of Almonzo Wildler the husband of LAURA INGLES WILDLER.
Its in the book on almonzo childhood.

[@cerveza2297]

Potatoes are the best 👌.

[@grahammcfadyenhill9555]

I think there were a lot of "critter fritters" eaten.

[@FryedSaw]

I had knowledge of myself to be a first settler of the Jungle & was to be located on the FJ River it was like around the world in 80 days race but hitchhikers guide to the galaxy became a louder future I think I seen like 16 months of the harvest season that the FJ RIVER HAD TO OFFER #Thanks #GoodLuck

[@kellyschiller8166]

Hey, fried squirrel is really good

[@taveonhurd8152]

what was that movie at 1:40?

[@thaisstone5192]

Moderately enlightening. Pity that SOME people are only interested in claiming they clicked on it. Derps.

[@ooze1982]

Is it corned beef? 🤣😂

[@paulornascimento]

77th like.

[@bltoth1955]

Herth? Huh…

[@jamesortiz5388]

Booze

[@khaledelsokary669]

first

[@DawnietotheMax]

The irony of posting this during Black History Month

[@roosatlgany7622]

Why?
If African slaves came in the 1600s, they were also fed many of these same items. In fact, if the facts were taught about the early slaves, that work of fiction called the 1619 Project would be thrown in the scrapyard.

[@Mr187Burger]

......Yo mad🤣

[@bosch9905]

Boo fucking hoo...

[@DawnietotheMax]

@@Mr187Burger Not at all. This is typical of tone-deaf people.

[@brandonmisenheimer8348]

We wuz lmao