Why did people in the middle ages not eat roast turkey and roast potatoes at christmas?
the turkey we all know and hate originates from America as do spuds and so many other foodstuffs and tobacco but indeed turkey was eaten but that was guinea fowl as we imported it from the country known as turkey so it was called turkey there are quite a few foods that are named after the country or even towns and city’s where they were exported from like tangerines from Tangier’s so you see we in europe had no corn sweet peppers chilli’s chocolait tomato’s chris found AmeriAmerica