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Originally Posted by NEOWatcher
It could also be a more rural lifestyle too. My ancestry is from areas with lots of farmland, lots of ducks, geese, chickens, etc. From the stories, and from visiting the villages as a kid, it doesn't seem like it was a recent thing.
Duck was a very common dish...Especially with dumplings, sweet kraut (for lack of a better english word), and a glass of lager.
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My Mom is from a very rural part of Germany. Ofcourse they had all kind of animals, but you wouldn't have a chicken every sunday, because you needed them for the eggs. Same true with the cows and milk.
It was not common to buy any food. Everything was grown on the own land. Only some basics as for example sugar would be bought. Even the flour was made from the own wheat.
(I am describing the time between WW1 and WW2 until about 1950. After that everything changed. The source for that knowledge is my Mom, born in 1933 and my Grandma born in 1900 who was blessed and lived until she was 99 in a relatively good health and a very sharp mind)
I know a lot of dishes from that era. Most of them would be called "vegetarian" today.