What was the Victorian era's food like?

Many of us like the fantasy of being a time traveller, popping back to see how people out of our history books really lived. Over the last few months I've been .... The Victorian era saw the introduction of two or three-course meals, with the courses arriving in sequence, one at a time. read more

Victorian food and what was eaten varied hugely at the time between the rich and the poor and this was the same for children too. Rich children ate extremely well whereas as a generalisation the poor had limited choices and availability. read more

That depended on your affluence. If you were poor like most of the denizens of London’s Whitechapel district whatever you could get. For example Annie Chapman’s last meal was a baked potato. read more

During the Victorian era, tinned food was available for the first time, but tinned meat was usually consumed by the poor because it was less expensive than fresh meats. Fish was also more widely available thanks to railway lines and ice. read more