Izaak asked
3 week ago

How much would it cost a medieval king to get the amount of seasoning(salt, pepper, etc.) that a modern day Doritos Nacho Cheese chip has?

 
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  1. Fonz says:

    One of the ingredients is paprika. So they would need to charter a boat and sail to South America without knowing it exists (the same applies to the maize for the crisp itself, which is also from America).

  2. Madelene says:

    I don’t think a lot of people have the knowledge of how difficult it was to get salt at that time. Maybe you can get better luck asking historians? https://www.reddit.com/r/askhistorian/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/

  3. Anna-Sarah says:

    Okay, there’s a massive misconception about blandness of food in the middle ages. Salt was no less common back then than it is now. The sea is literally made of it. Youtube: Skallagrim and Shadiversity.

  4. Charleton says:

    Probably quite a bit, things like salt, aluminium, nutmeg, and more were worth their weight in gold or more during various points of history.

  5. julija says:

    I think maybe this would be better for /r/theydidthemath?

  6. TIERA says:

    Alright I’ll have a crack. I have no particular skills other than a willingness to type things into Google. The ingredients are: whole corn, vegetable oil (corn, soybean, and/or sunflower oil), salt, cheddar cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), maltodextrin, whey, monosodium glutamate, buttermilk solids, romano cheese (part skim cow’s milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), whey protein concentrate, onion powder, partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oil, corn flour, disodium phosphate, lactose, natural and artificial flavor, dextrose, tomato powder, spices, lactic acid, artificial color (including Yellow 6, Yellow 5, Red 40), citric acid, sugar, garlic powder, red and green bell pepper powder, sodium caseinate, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, nonfat milk solids, whey protein isolate, corn syrup solids. (Continued in reply)

  7. Well it depends, what are we talking about here in terms of currency? Thaler? The Cologne Mark? Or are we in England? In that case what kind of penny? Gold or Tealby?

  8. tascha says:

    Weird question

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