Also at some points we ate rats.
And the best (well...not for those who ingested it) comes from the XIXth century, when chemistry was seen as the future of food and poor people wanted to eat stuff they normally couldn't, such as jam. To reduce producing cost, they would put bark, glue, paper, cotton... inside. Because of the sugar, the taste was ok.
I've read that in a book about XIXth century food industry and there were wilder things in there that I don't quite remember, I'll try to fetch back my notes.
French: *looking for protein in a famine*
And the best (well...not for those who ingested it) comes from the XIXth century, when chemistry was seen as the future of food and poor people wanted to eat stuff they normally couldn't, such as jam. To reduce producing cost, they would put bark, glue, paper, cotton... inside. Because of the sugar, the taste was ok.
I've read that in a book about XIXth century food industry and there were wilder things in there that I don't quite remember, I'll try to fetch back my notes.