What did the Victorian era Poor eat? (Compared to the Rich)
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- Find out what poor Victorians ate compared to rich officers and soldiers in 19th Century Britain. For the poor, chronic starvation was a social norm - only acute starvation raised the eyebrows of authority. Today you will discover inequalities as causes of hunger - find out how what food paupers ate compared with a workhouse officer and what little prisoners were given to eat. Why were some condemned to food poverty by their guardians and others so well fed?
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Thanks for not playing music in the background.
Totally. He never has. I like it too 🙂
Why?
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@@evil1knight in my experience sometimes it drowns out the narration.
@@evil1knight It distracts from this lovely unique form of narration and the story. If it were poetry with scenes of the essence, then yes, music 🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵.. otherwise, many best without. He's one of them . 🙂
I like how this video touches on the fact that damage from malnutrition in childhood can't be undone even ppl now don't understand how dangerous not having enough food is for children they are damaged forever
or to the contrary having entirely too much and it's all processed garbage.
True, I grew up hungry not even because of poverty but because of neglect and I wound up hospitalized in my early 20s from an extremely severe vitamin D deficiency that had been making me gradually more and more ill, and I had no idea that I'd been lacking it since childhood until it was diagnosed... It's amazing I didn't get rickets or something. My grandparents also frequently commented on how they thought I was anemic as well and would feed me lots of iron rich foods I craved, lol..
My father brother and son are all over six ft. Yet I am five ten. Reason ? Twice at primary school I came close to death thanks to illness, my body little more than skin and bones. So for three years I did not grow.
So true. Neglected parents can cause all sorts of problems.
I have had breathing difficulty and heart issues since my later childhood until now, And I remember always being starving and thirsty.. So much my throat would become sore, It was a daily occurrence.
I also have throat swelling issues until this day, So I believe it is something that says with you forever.
@@ianturpin9180 it's called genetics....you're just the runt! You'd have to be truly uneducated to think TWO incidents made you a few inches smaller than your other male family members. Ever consider the fact that you likely just inherited more of your Mom's genes??
The British empire stole from its colonies to become vastly rich but it neglected its own citizens, just imagine what horrors fell upon the citizens of these colonies.
Can you say, FAMINE. Ireland, India, there was plenty of food available too. In Ireland it’s said that, “God caused the blight but the British caused the famine.”
Plenty of food for the rich and the upper class only Sir. For working and untouchables there is no proper food was available , my Grandmother said that they eat the grains of Forrest grass, the bajara, jowar sometimes, and sometimes they sleep with the empty stomach. So there was good time and there was bad times. Infact in today's India there are many people who live in such a poverty that they cannot afford two times meals. Recently government reduced the low priced (rashan ) supply.they are just focusing on the big picture and global issues but the poor and lower class (including the untouchables) are in the poor condition.@@djquinn11
The same year Jack London was writing about London, the Boer War was ending. The British Army was so shocked by the poor physical health of many soldiers due to malnutrition that it was enough for Britain to start issuing free school meals to children in 1906.
In addition, the British officer Robert Baden Powell noticed the the lack of outdoorsmanship and survival skills of British soldiers. He went on to be the father of the Scouting Movement.
And 25ousand woman an children died in concentration camps during the 2nd boer War
@@darrentodd3591 It was significantly higher then 25K from what I understand
@It’s OK but He's suggesting that the British were uncaring of the nutrition of women and children when they were essentially foreign and prisoners of war in concentration camps.
Was that Jack London the same guy, who wrote books I read in primary school in Africa, about starving dogs and their 1000's of Kilometres long journey back home. I did not know that it was a parody of UK society, like the book animal farm for the all Kings/queens leaders of the world.
And so it is.
I grew up wanting for food. It is true, the damage is irreparable, but now I get enough. This is one reason why I usually donate money to the local food bank. I would rather donate money than food because sometimes a needy person won't have all the ingredients or proper utilities to prepare something slightly more complex. Great channel, I love hearing about the old days!
That's great! Thank you.
I grew up hungry and homeless all the time. Now that I’m adult, my children have never known a day of hunger. I have become a food hoarder, and idea of not having food literally gives me anxiety.
@@hardtogetnamehere I feel ya. My Dad took off and left my Mom and us 4 kids. Without supportive family we went without. She fed us popcorn and kool aid with half the sugar for breakfast and lunch and whatever she could afford for supper. Lots of pancakes and bologna. I used to make friends with kids so I could eat snacks with them after school. I’ve never felt comfortable unless I have a 2 month food supply. Because of the lockdowns and the semi-destruction it’s done to the food supply system I now have a years worth of non-perishable food for 4 people and I keep a garden. Most Americans have no idea how debilitating sustained lack of food is. They’re lucky I’ll tell ya that !!
You do know that the epidemic is that the less well off people are overweight .
@@Lunchladydoyle I totally understand. It’s strange what food insecurity as a child does to you as an adult. I garden, raise livestock, can food, freeze dry food, anything I can to preserve the food I grow. I have over a years worth of food for my family. Not to mention 30+ fruit and nut trees, a huge garden, and the livestock. We moved to the country in California just so we could live sustainably. With all the supply chain issues and the over 30 food processing plants that blew up, and the millions of chickens they killed, I’m so glad we did. It’s comforting to know that no matter what, my kids will have food. I even store dry goods and make my own bread and pasta just to make sure.
I grew up in my destroyed city in Germany right after its near total destruction in WW 2..We had very little food..My Oma baked huge wheels of Sourdough bread in the Public Oven..we washed our laundry in the River on the laundry boat..My mother gathered stinger nettles and made spinach out of it..We had a garden later w cherries Plums Raspberries that were canned..She made Sauerkraut and grew potatoes in a barrel on the balcony..I spent the summers at my Aunties who made me eat butter and cheese and drink milk
I am 72 yrs old now and in excellent Health ..Thank God ..lack of nutrition in kids is horrible !!! These poor kids in those days were doomed
History now the closest its ever been to repeating itself in the UK.
God bless you! It is a disgrace that the war crimes of the allied powers are so seldom spoken of, I pray the German people may recover their sense of dignity happiness and confidence which they so richly deserve.
I'm glad your mother was able to feed you, God bless her it must have been hard. Germany is overlooked alot, regarding the affect war had on its own people.
An amazing life .... God's blessings upon you.
@@waltershumer4211 my generation suffers from the Collective Guilt ..to us it is to this day unfathomable that our parents generation adored and followed a monster and his entourage into a war that cost 58 000 000 lives!!!
This channel is becoming increasingly relevant.
Absolutely, our present is mirroring our past (or history is repeating itself).
As a teacher, thank you for posting this, and for the passion in the reading. Dry reading causes students to tune out, this keeps their attention. Well created, thank you
You're very welcome, thank you. Are you a history teacher?
@@FactFeast Yes, I am :)
Great to know that schools are teaching about the Victorians and Edwardians nowadays. I'm pleased my content is useful.
@@FactFeast It's one of my favourite time periods. I alaways try, regardless of era, to dive into everyday life for the population, especially focusing on kids. History books love the famous, but I try to show the differences in life, and hit hard how children lived. This video is wonderful for that.
"The People of the Abyss" by Jack London is one hell of a book. It's unforgettable.
I believe it's one of the best and most important books I've ever read. I not only own a copy, but have given at least 5 copies as gifts. Unforgettable is the perfect word.
Prior to London going to London, Charles Dickens went to NY and described the slums there as worse than anything he ever saw in London.
Sold! I just purchased a copy, look forward to reading it! I love this kind of stuff always a good reminder of how lucky we are now
As a blind person myself, that bit about the blind house hit hard. There for the grace of god go I. Also, on a lighter note, in my subscription box your video is just below one about the cheapest vs the most expensive Las Vegas buffet. 😀
An interesting juxtaposition for food videos. Thank you for your comment!
I don't know how anyone in poverty & underfed even survived it & Thanks F.F.❤️
Having to eat skilly or stale bread. No doubt the water or broth helped make hard bread edible.
@@FactFeast So sad☹️
@@FactFeast soak it in liquid long enough and it will soften up.
Wonder how people will see the people in poverty now in hundred years, food bank's! Eat or heat, deaths waiting to be admitted in hospital, elderly in care homes with no care while care home profit, people pulling own teeth out due to no NHS dentistry, Victorian times no welfare state until 1946 welfare created, only for the conservative governments to take away and bring back the Victorian times for the poor.
Too many fat people today, are a drain on the NHS ,free market economics has worked wonders
Last part of my research poor Victorians breakfast consisted of cold meat , cheese beer Victorians eat batten berg which is light sponge cake . Poor people have salaries about 12 shillings spend on food each week loaf of bread milk cheese afford meat once a week saved for Sunday lunch beer and gin were cheap and illnes and death were common especially in children due to poor diet and biggest killer was dirty drinking water eat beans and lentils for protein sources but Victorians also eat lot of healthy fiber such as nuts , chestnut hazelnut most commonly meat was pork . In winter season carrots , turnips unexpsenive . Victorians drink lemonade beer , hot tea . Eat sweets such as jelly babies , coconut rice toffee or wine gums Victorians menu dinner rabbit soup in 1880 s during late 19 and early 20 centuries popcorn was eaten as cereal nowadays. Victorians breakfast was heavy meal sausages, ham , eggs served with bread rolls high tea served before dinner with milk and sugar became well established in Britain in early 19 th century they began to use gas have dinner from 5 pm to 7 pm salad served for upper class . Victorians still thin they had fixation on pursing body either through not eating use of mineral water and limited amount thought of poverty diet .victorians tea menu consisted of finger sandwiches with cucumber and sweets as scones , coco chocolate on grand sale but Poor Victorians on Christmas dinner included both beef swan or two . Victorians among favorites of queen victoria sweets packed in small boxes sent to court four times sweets were chocolate wafers have three different shapes. Victorians drinking was hot cup of rice milk in street vendors and there are too picnic sandwiches Victorians Britain was nation of coffee drinkers we too in Arabic countries love coffee very drink of hospitality we give it guests with dates iam so sorry to be little long but reading and writing both are great ways to improve our English language as none native speakers stay safe blessed good luck to you your dearest ones
Thank you very much for the interesting information in your comment.
Coffee and dates- I have to try it. Thank you .
If you're interested in improving your English, I would like to offer you a free English class.
Khatoon AlSadah: Thank you for taking the time to share this information. I believe oysters were available from street merchants. Now we think of them as a treat but in Victorian times the poor would eat them too. I hope that fits with your research. My great great grandfather lived near Covent Garden in London and was just over 5’1” tall. A stunted man. But after three generations of good food and climate in Australia the men in the family were 5’11”-6’ tall. Same genes, fully expressed.
Swan was made illegal to eat except by royalty so they were not having that at Christmas nor any other time. Battenberg cake was only invented for the occasion of Queen Victoria's granddaughter's wedding in the mid 1880s. Brits have long chosen tea over coffee and what on earth is "coconut rice toffee"?
I like a lot of people have always been very interested in the Victorian/Edwardian era, but alas I see now thanks to your excellent videos that I had the complete wrong end of the stick and was looking at things through rose tinted glasses, I can not believe how the poor especially children suffered - and that from one of the richest countries in the world, that story about the prison warden that gave the little child biscuits and got dismissed for his kindness especially spoke to me. Thank you for your very informative and often fun videos.
Some of the accounts from the past reveal how much of a different world it was in some respects. Thank you for your comment, I'm glad you like watching the videos.
Victorian Enģland was a hell for the poor. Families lived in one cellar room. Seamstress's lost their sight sewing by candlelight while subsisting on bread and tea. Read Oscar Wilde's Song of a Shirt .
It's getting like that again in the UK. We have Food banks which give donated food to struggling families, people cannot afford to cook food or heat their homes .
The post war social security has been dismantled, and put into the hands of capitalistic free market. We are becoming more like the US daily , and inherit it's violent crime also as a result of poverty and social marginalisation .
Most people who think they’d like to live in those times imagine themselves in the Manor House rather than the poor house. I always ask if they have a title or a large estate. When they inevitably answer “no” then I remind them that the same families who own those things now also owned them back then and if their ancestors were poor, they would’ve been as well. It takes the romance out of the notion.
This still happens. School cafeteria workers have been fired for giving a hungry child food even if the worker paid for it. Paying for it can get you fired also. And the uneaten foid that cannot be given??? Its thrown out at the end of the day.
The problem also was the attitude of the well off to the poorer folk. The assumption was that the poor should work hard to earn enough to eat properly and better themselves, regardless of what little opportunity that may have been present for those poor.
Absolutely the same today!
Sad how that is exactly the attitude of today. It's the rhetoric of the current Tory party.
These videos always serve as a reminder to be grateful for my life. I am aware, but it just helps to know. I can feel bad about my own issues but learning about these things gives me motivation to try harder and make something of myself. I feel bad for all those who had to suffer with no recourse or relief 😢
I'm glad you find the content worthwhile and meaningful. Thank you!
I get very irritated and is all I can describe as uncomfortable when I see my GF waste food. If you’ve never truly been hungry before with too much pride to go to a food bank or steal then I don’t think you’d get it. Now I’m well off and very grateful.
I grew up poor. We usually had food, maybe it was just pancake mix or crackers, but it was something. But that feeling of wanting more, but there just isn’t any or you won’t have any for the next day was always a battle in one’s mind. Now I have children of my own, am no longer poor, but my kids wasting food can set me off. I’ve taught them to take small amounts, if they are hungry they can have a second serving, but you do not fill your plate to throw 1/2 off it out.
I'm with you, mate!
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Do you know how they're fighting infant starvation in Venezuela these days? They've made it illegal for doctors to put 'starvation' on the death certificates of infants. 👍🏻 🇻🇪👍🏻
I heard a recording made in the 1930s by a man who was in the workhouse as a child which would have been about the 1890s. He was interviewed because he was actually in the same workhouse or at the same time as Charlie Chaplin knowing that the 1930s were not great what he said was surprising; People do not understand today we were always hungry however bad the workhouse was we got enough to eat
I don't know what the Victorian poor ate but I think we might to dig the recipes out again any time soon.
Due to epigenetics we also know it can cause damage for generations.
Thats been my lived experience, especially in regard to food hoarding, overeating and subsequently disorders like binge eating disorder and bulimia. One half of ny family experienced the depths of the great depression and the other both that and long lasting poverty (we're talking dipping stale, rock hard bread in water and calling it a proper meal). My family is littered with disordered eating and hoarding of all kinds. From what I've heard the same thing has occurred with grandchildren of the holocaust. Genetically we are such fragile creatures.
Epigenetic changes reset after 3 generations.
@@ReasonAboveEverything thankgod there is hope, then
how ironic. Only a couple of days ago in Belgium (like, one of the richest countries in the world) I read an article about a teacher who wrote an official complaint letter in the newsppers about HER getting reproached by education investigators. The reproach was that she didnt stick to the school program, instead serving meals and trying to have them to eat. You read this well. Kids still go to school without having eaten. You imagine how you can absorb information while being hungry all the time? And we call ourselves the civilised countries.....
Kids live with food insecurity all over Canada and the US. Sadly this is nothing new.
My maternal granny (born around 1912) certainly knew about hardship, as she had a grand total of 16 children! My mum still talks about how they bathed in a tin washtub, had to share bathwater & used an outdoor toilet. Being a germophobe & terrified of spiders, I could never! 😂
Wow, 16 children - that's a lot, even for those times. I hope they were all healthy and survived.
You think that U would never but U would. U would because U would w ant to survive. It is amazing the lengths living beings will go to survive.
Such a hard life in those days 😢 I’ve started to do my family tree and my ancestors on on both sides came from the east end which is covered in a lot of this channels videos..Very sad,especially before state welfare and the NHS 😢
I love your voice and content! More, please!
Thank you so much. I'm preparing more content to serve up.
Excellent job. You are quite an accomplished actor.
This had the effect of making me peckish. I wolfed down an Italian sub, containing my guilt with the thought that all these people would be long dead anyway, even if they'd been fed properly.
Makes me realise how fortunate we are today. People "take it for granted" that there's plenty and it's affordable.
and now the elite are trying to make it scarce and expensive. Buckle up for the "great reset" : (
There are 14 million people in poverty and relying on foodbanks, in Britain today. The highest level of poverty since the 1930's.
Great job as always my friend
Much appreciated!
I bloody love Jack London... this narrating is flawless.
Much appreciated! There are several Jack London stories on my channel should you be interested.
@@FactFeast I've been eating them up like ships biscuit my friend... amazing work.
Apart from the army of 6 million blind in London.
I agree. Isn’t just a wonderful channel. It supplements my personal research and reading. Absolutely fabulous narration. Much love. 🥰
Your voice is silky and smooth, I wouldn't want it any other way. Thank you for your work, it makes my modest meals feel like a feast!
Thanks for listening! Great to know you enjoy the content.
The only channel I “like” as soon as I start watching.
You can see the contempt in the eyes of the blue eyed kid. That really hits home, even across such vast a distance of time.
What did they eat? Just like today. Whatever they could afford.
Now children eat plenty, but of the wrong things, which also lead to deficiency of necessary nutrients. Such is progress.
Aye, there's a reasom so many of us have parents who always brought us up never to waste food to the point of obssession sometimes... folk memories?
Also I heard it was a criminal offence to throw away any food during war years.
Love this channel! Great videos!❤️❤️
Thank you so much!! Welcome, if you're new here.
Kids were still going hungry in the 50s when I went school, they got free school dinners and eat them with avidity, eating others leftovers if they got the chance, this was near London, I sometimes think of the poor kids what happened to them?
For many of those child the free school dinner was the only hot meal they had in the day.
Thank you, half my family grew up in poverty in the east end of London,back in the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries
You’re welcome. I’m glad the history is of interest to you.
Thanks for the vid!
Thanks very much for watching it 🙂
Excellent video's, can't get enough of this channel.
Excellent! So nice to read that you like the social history here. I’ll be making more.
@@FactFeast Excellent. Can't wait!
Jack London's book on this was The People of the Abyss. Well worth a read.
Some people are still living with the genetic consequences of these times.
And modern Brits nostalgic for the good ol' days will soon get to experience the joys of life in the Workhouses again. Rees-Mogg, Minister for the 19th Century, also plans on bringing back public floggings, so it'll be the full experience. (The Tory government has recently told its starving, soon to be freezing peasants that they can stay warm this winter by "cuddling a cat." Seriously.)
I just love your channel!
Thank you so much! Nice to have you as a regular viewer 😊
Me my younger sister and brother, grew up poor, food was scarce, we had hand me down clothes, we didn’t have much, but poverty motivated us all to leave school and we all grafted, now I don’t struggle, got plenty, poverty gives you the fire in your belly to change your life, now we often laugh at the rough times, we didn’t live as hard as the Victorian’s but poverty isn’t a excuse it’s teacher
We're about to find out in real life! Thanks to Tory austerity.
Amazing. Thank you
That’s great! Thanks for checking out the video.
Love your channel
That's fantastic!
Hmm good timing for this video, history is repeating itself, just waiting for the Poor Laws to be reinstated!
Only occasionally I happen upon a source of both entertainment and information that sets the standard required. Where has Fact Feast been all my CZcams existence??? Thank you FF.
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That last quotes, it just shows you who controls the distribution of goods.
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crikey...I thought I was looking at the tory manifesto for a while
Ikr
To think this is how so many of my ancestors in London would have lived, and I'm put off when something isn't organic.
To think that these were the victors of the Empire,, and that the subjects were treated way way way way worse to this inhumanity.
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The good old days for Jacob Rees Mogg
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I can understand this I'm in my 40s and I grew up with childhood hunger we never had leftovers but always had something to eat mostly from food banks and i was always hungry and that was 1980s.1990s America...great depression poverty in a rich country and state too .i was the only kid but we shared the home with my granny and the hunger and ill health i grew with sure didn't help my eyes either..yet my life growing up must've seem like luxury to these people in your videos 😢
We should add that Jack London was a social activist AND a socialist, that's why he disguised as poor and wrote this book.
Jackie lad is lucky he didnt get his gizzards sliced. Always said id have loved to have seen the victorian period in my part of England. My family (cotters then) owned and ran a workhouse in the 1850s+. Its pretty neat actually, on the family history records we have their names, but also all the names of their...workers? (Inmates?) The oldest was 88. Youngest, 6. Do cherish that document and the later photos but its shattered my view of 'real' victorian England.
Thanks for these videos!! Really interesting and do appreciate your time taken on them 👍
Thank you.back on my old channel again too. 👍🙂
Great! Welcome back.
Nowadays so many working class people have to junk food and or suffering Obesity and alot or still unfit
Nice
Thank you! Nice to know you enjoyed watching.
Interesting video
Thanks very much!
Starvation is very painful.
As long as the "rich " have meat never is wrong. My conclusion these days.
Still a lot of poverty a lot of hidden poverty even these days
The scraps from Rees Moggs table perhaps?
Never EVER trust any tory!
"Sir May I Have Some More?" - "MOAR!"
While the upper echelons feasted on prime venison and cavair the poor got by on a bowl of gruel a day. The Victorian era was as shameful as it was cruel. Poor children near starvation with rickets due to lack of nutrition, the aristocracy shouldn't be lauded they should be reviled and shamed. Greatest empire in the world, I don't think so.
Little Jackie coogan at .20 as Oliver twist. He would later be Uncle fester on the Adams family
Amazing!
I have to say, I thank god I was born in 1969, imagine being born in this era. People born after the Second World War are very fortunate, covid is the worst since then imo
I was born in 1970 and was constantly hungry as a child. Family dysfunction, addictions etc. could still cause hunger for children then, plus there just wasnt as much food around (in my area no supermarkets except co-op, few restaurants, no fast food except fish and chips).
I was 19 when the pandemic started, I was like 169 pounds, working part time, my parents had jobs and once the pandemic started none of us had money and I went from pretty strong and in shape eating 5 meals a day that I was able to pay for myself to just 2 meals a day and 149 pounds by July. Weight’s back up and I’m stronger than ever now though.
No wonder they hissed at Victoria and tried to assassinate her 7 times.
Especially how the Irish were treated during the great potato famine. She really didn't do much, she and the government of the UK let Ireland and India starve as part of a political game.
So true about malnutrition in the young. Not enough fat and their brains and nervous systems suffer. Protein, muscles and brain matter....but even today, with the nature of the highly processed foods that seem to be the foundation of the modern American diet, one can be calorie rich and even overweight, but malnourished all the same.
Interesting. Though I'm more concerned what the poor will eat now
Frozen pizza and energy drink.
Takeaways and sweets sausage rolls chicken nuggets and whatever the local shop sells.
White bread, cheese and Pall mall tobaco
The poor will eat the billionaires.
In my childhood during my own long-term kidnapping which was from October in the year of 1969 only a few days after I was born until the middle of July in the year of 1991 my kidnappers had let me starve so many times and after the starving time the female kidnapper - a schizophrenic woman - had given me a soup which was made from moldy bread to eat! I ate it and a quarter of an hour I throw it out and she forced me to eat it again and to clean up the rest of the mess! I was forced to do all the work in the house and garden and if I wasn't ready in the time they have given me to do it, I didn't got anything to eat for the evening and the next day! And so I was forced to eat all kind of animal food so many times! So for this video here, I know pretty much what it means to starve and have nothing to eat! Have a wonderful and peaceful weekend and lovely greetings from Sarah!
Are we supposed to believe you ?
Kidnappers
I always say that I was born a few decades to late and would have loved to live in the Victorian era, after watching these videos I do not think so .........thanks anyway for the interesting facts - highly enjoyable
Tough times for most people. Thanks for writing!
As a middle child, I can see why the younger ones were the best off. My older brother might have something different to say about it, but he had allergies to.....EVERYTHING...and my sister, well she was a girl. Guess who mowed the yard, trimmed weeds and split the wood? Of course my sister got chunkier than me. Of course my brother was never as strong or able as me, despite being a few inches taller lol.
Y'all get this. We think of our food portions in sizes or round about. In fact we only use any measurement for recipes..
They had so little food to go around they measured in ounces.
Think if a new born baby drinking 4 ounces of milk every 2 hours at least.
Thats the amounts we are discussing For full grown people
Yes, all described in pounds and ounces.
@@FactFeast that's tiny amounts. When I think about this time period I want to kill myself. It's a weird feeling to have about a period of time... But Victorian and Edwardian era sounds like.... The worst existence ever no matter what your status would be.
This is happening to young children today!
How are you doing sir first of all we offer our deepest condolences to royal family and all British citizens because of sad occasions of death of queen Elizabeth and as always iam gathering key points about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s rich and poor Victorians are quiet different rich children would eaten very well with lot of choices for poor children would have been fewer options. Rich people their food cooked by servants served with family in dinning rooms and breakfast tended to be large meal and would have ham , egg , bacon afternoon tea . Big difference between rich and poor in Victorian times rich people had lot of treats , fancy clothes even telephones when they were invented and poor people had to work hard in factories, workhouses eat Broxy ( diseased sheep ) and rich people eat fruits , vegetables, whole grains chicken pudding caribou layered ice cream bombe American diet first half of 20 th century and Mediterranean diet .victorian aristocrats eat seven course menu followed by soup light salad dessert or fruit. Upper class Victorians have afternoon tea with light meal between lunch at noon supper at 8 pm included sweet treats as cookies candies cakes as well sandwiches fruit , nuts .
A big difference in the diets of the poor and the rich.
I from Somalia we drink a lot of milk I would say that milk and meat is the best foods ever I wouldn't never want pasta or rice but only camel milk meats ,,,,it quenches my hungry really quickly has I am still growing I would need 3 liters of milk a day and bites of mint meat.and some sodas would be good to flush it all down.😎😎😎😎
I have no words to describe how upsetting is to hear this video. Living in starvation is the most painful thing, and inhuman as well.
I'm from South America and in 1973 Salvador's Allende goverment was overthrown by the ultra right with lots of hel from yhe U.S.. That cost us 17 years of dictarorship, concentration camps, people dissappeared by the thousands and massive starvation. At the time we were middle class and my parents lost their job within 6 months. A minimum salary was establish. They would pay like 100.00 dollars a month but rent was 70 dollar a month leaving families with 30.00 yo use for : utilities, rent. ( if you were not a hone owner), clothe. school uniform for 2 - 10 children in some cases, food, transportation money, plus the basic needs to keep yourself clean. We ate do little than my brother and me didnt grow any more after 12 and 13 years old. Once I have good grades but lack of food affected out learning capacity. Children's brains get affected for ever!. Our dreams and goals got shutter! Later on we we move to Argentina where the economy was better, my father went back ro work in a big company, rented a beautiful house in a beautiful neighboorhood but another coop hit us while living i. this wonderful country.. Once again we had to flee from so much danger. We came to California for 5 years, that was the family treaty but end up here way too long!!. All I can say is that I know what is to go to bed with an empty stomach every day, and not knowing if we are going to have food tomorrow. ..it is painful, in winter when is below zero you have no calories to keep up with such dreadful weather. We went through poverty for 6 years and it was complete hell! I cannot imagene ebduring such precarious situation longer or all your life, like so many people did back in those times. Poverty is a condition not a choice!. As for today The New Order is pushing all of us toward poverty again, they are doing it at a slow pace, so we don't realize...the fact is that we do!!!.
Now a days I'm post chemotherapy and trying to recover, can't wait to go back to work and be productive, and feel good about myself.
The only one to blame about poverty is the elite, the multimillionaires , the goverments that paid us penuts while they sit on a desk making laws for themselves!. This selfish inhuman behavior happens world wide abd it hasn't stop. Here in San Francisco one of the most visited cities in the world have thousands if not millions nationally of homeless living on the streets, freezing to death, bot enough shelters, not enough drug rehabilitation programs for mental health, extremely expensive rents, and good education is only good for the rich. In San Francisco renting one room is a thousand dollars, renting a studio 2000.00, and an apartament 2400 - 300.00 but people don't make more than 18 hundred..so they are force to live with roommates, stay with the family until they graduate ( assuming some can get a college degree, or vocational training), it is very hard to live from check to check without doing nothing for fun after working 40- 50 and more hours per week.
I can't say I enjoyed the video because it was very sad, but very
informative.Thanks for sharing.
Thanks very much for writing. I hope you're feeling better and wish you the best.
Hard for the working class to claw themselves up in their lives re poor nutrition and lack of education. Generational wealth helps a lot and gives a great start in life.
The labour and the torries will be happy to see us back in this era..
Makes me sad 😢😢 I know it's not the sad today but I've seen kids these days having school dinners as they've main meals.
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In Sidney Ohio they have a building downtown that says Workhouse on it.
Interesting
These times sound like hell on earth😢
Thanks for the loud death metal music throughout!❤
@14:40, Whoah!
Stale bread, just like today
They all are dead it seems so strange.
I'm glad I live like a king in comparison.
They strait up fired a warden for being kind to a child. .....
my fathers cousin was born in a workhouse but eventually became a multi millionaire
Just goes to show these people should and can pick themselves up by their bootstraps
Times are repeating again gas and electricity bills are up 120% food prices are going up every week people using food banks people are going to freeze and go hungry this winter in Scotland
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$60 a month in those days would have been considered middle class!.
So the officers get more. They live there and manage the place, and get more in return.
There are so many assumptions made by the person making the comparison.
If those people were to find employment in other areas, would their compensation be much higher? Are they given the extra food and place to stay instead of a wage most people would expect?
I have an example. I moved to Wyoming a few years ago, I was told I would get paid, room and board and I wouldnt have to worry about a car. I left my car at my parents, was given a cabin in the mountains free of charge, was given all the food I wanted (buffet style meals, 3x a day and all the grazing I wanted in between, loads of variety) and I broke a couple ribs riding a 4 wheeler (which was free.... dirtbikes, 4 wheelers, snowmobiles, 2 seater ATV's, horse rides, canoe and mountain bikes were unlimited usage and entirely free and part of company transportation from resort to resort) and to get to the hospital, they let me use their Mercedes. It was nice. That being said...and this was 17 yeas ago, they only paid me $4.25 an hour to live there.
Did I complain that the owner and my manager got paid more? I got a place to live for free, all the food and transport I need for free, work wasnt hard and it was beautiful, and I got paid to basically hang out there.
I am making MUCH more now, but I made the choice and effort to change my life, I didnt expect to get the same stuff the owner got while I was there. Of course, I had to quit and move and find other work....but I could still be there. Bitching about how unfair it was.