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In the Iron Age, you’d mainly be eating vegetables, grains and farmed animals, such as pigs. Fish had been eaten since the Stone Age, and fish skins were even stitched together to make waterproof clothes!
You might also have dishes such as stewed hare, with wild herbs mixed in to give it more flavour and a chunk of bread on the side.
While today you might have butter on your bread, it’s vErY unlikely it has been pulled out of a BoG – and if it has, you rEaLlY need to get your parents to have a word with the supermarket manager.
Forget your usual spreadables, at this time BoG bUtTeR was a thing. It was essentially butter or other animal fat that had been crammed into a wooden container, then buried underground in soggy mud. Mmmmmm. Yummy.
Would you like some butter on your toast?
Yes, please!
FANCY THAT!
It seems likely that bog butter was buried to stop it going off – although several thousand years might be pushing it a bit. When one archaeologist tried a 3,000-year-old bog butter he described the flavour as having “a lot of funk” with “a crazy mouldy finish”. Errr, thanks but no thanks.
Pass me that spade – I´ll be back in half an hour.
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