[HN Gopher] For Centuries, English Bakers' Biggest Customers Wer... ___________________________________________________________________ For Centuries, English Bakers' Biggest Customers Were Horses Author : pepys Score : 46 points Date : 2022-07-26 21:33 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.atlasobscura.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.atlasobscura.com) | madaxe_again wrote: | They still make it here in our very rural corner of Portugal, | although it's more for the donkeys - they're used as beasts of | burden still, usually for olives in more remote or inaccessible | groves - some are on really steep hill slopes, impossible for | mechanisation. It's for the dogs, too. Not 100% sure of the | recipe but it's rye, olive leaves and leftovers from pressing, | and I think oat bran - stuff smells awful and has the density of | a brick, but keeps for ages and makes for a handy meal on the | hoof. | OnlyMortal wrote: | Now I'm interested... | gus_massa wrote: | I agree. | | @GP: Photos? A press article? More details? Why donkeys and | not mules? | googlryas wrote: | Mules are (generally) infertile. They're viewed as better | beasts of burden than donkeys, but not if you need to keep | creating them out of separate horse/donkey populations. | daniel-cussen wrote: | Korea [North Korea] made food for donkeys too, their salvation | from mechanization and therefore depending on imports America | could deprive them of. Donkeys? America couldn't deprive them | of. | | Donkeys? | | Loyal. | jmercouris wrote: | It's very interesting that they made bread for horses even! It is | pre digested, so that does help! | jewel wrote: | The article makes me wonder what the maximum range for a horse | would be if carrying its own meals, never grazing, but drinking | water along the way as needed. | | Seems like it'd sort of be like the rocket equation, but more | forgiving. | giraffe_lady wrote: | idk if you're joking or what but there was literally on article | about exactly this on the front page today. | gerdesj wrote: | Assume a spherical horse ... | | OK are we talking a Mustang or a Shire or Clydesdale? Carrying | the food or dragging a wagon? | | I don't know enough about horses but a heavy horse (Shirehorse, | Suffolk Punch or Clydesdale in the UK) can drag quite a decent | load. Granddad's Clydesdale "Damson" could make a furrow with a | plough all day, back in the day - bloody hard work. Ironically, | that was in Devon - Scottish horse in Shire land! He got a | Ferguson tractor later but they kept the horses as well. | | I think we would run out of UK for a single horse load unless | doing the full Land's End to John o'Groats (or trying to cross | the Irish Sea) but a bigger land might need a re-fuel or two. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-26 23:00 UTC)