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Needless to say, there were other kinds of food that we would find more palatable today.
Families ate two meals a day – at noon and in the evening – and if you’re a fan of Mexican food, you’d probably recognise and like a lot of what Aztecs kids were fed.
One of their main sources of food was maize, which you might know as sweetcorn. It was ground into flour to make flat discs called tortillas. Then they’d either wrap them round vegetables or meat – and when we say meat we mean toasted insects more often than not – or use them to scoop up their food (knives and forks were in short supply back then).
FANCY THAT!
The Aztecs loved to eat tamales, which are steamed corn dough pockets. They could be filled with beans, fruit, fish or, errrr, gopher or flamingo or FROG. You know your tamale is undercooked if it hops away.
Now that´s what you call fast food!
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