Medieval banquets show people eating all kinds of foods that are no longer eaten. Birds especially featured. Eagles, herons, peacocks, sparrows, larks, finches, swans, and almost all other feathered creatures were widely consumed. This wasn't so much because swans and other birds were fantastically delicious-they weren't; that's why we don't eat them now-but rather because other, better meats weren't available.
( Bill Bryson )
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