I was reading a few old folkloric tales, mostly Eastern European,

>>2189633
I mean I don't have anything official but in rural NC, where I grew up there were some BBQ places like this. There weren't too many choices, just what the owner felt like cooking that day and the place closed down when he ran out of pork for the day/felt like it. Those places have the best BBQ I tell you what

>>2189633
>If customer looks like he has money bring him food. Why else would he come in?
>If he does not, kick him out

>>2189743
>There weren't too many choices, just what the owner felt like cooking that day and the place closed down when he ran out of pork for the day/felt like it.
There's out a rancho that sells bbq out where I live; you go pay for how many buckets you want and the dude would bring you hot metal buckets of bbq'd pork, sausage, baked beans and corn bread. Best food I've had in my life.

>>2189633
I'm no historian nor haven't read any source on this but i will use common sense.
First of all, there is no refrigeration and that means nothing from far away and nothing in stock.
Also globalization is almost null, so the cook would simply know to make what it's done in the region, no sushi in russia and no gorsch in japan.
Because of that too, the variety is much lower too, things like tomatoes, potatoes and corn didn't exist in medieval europe (mostly brought during the reinaissence from america) and everything would be the "local variant" of the food (an apple from toledo probably was considerably different from an apple from york)

Given this, probably the places that sold food (i doubt that would be the only thing they sold) would have someone (not necesarily just a cook) to prepare a simple meal that everyone can eat and pay with the food of the village. If it were a sea or fish-rich town, there would be probably a lot of fish as it's an almost steady source of food. In an inland town, meat would not be very regular as it would be tied to the rythm the local cattle/pig/etc breeder can supply grown and fattened animals. Bigger towns or cities would be much more diverse as the surrounding producers would benefit from selling their products there, giving the cities more frequency to "scarce" things like meat and diversity on products.

Another thing to keep in mind is that for the time a lot of eating behaviours we have today that "forces" restaurants to ask you what you want haven't appeared yet. things like vegetarians, gluten-free, low-fat diets. Even certain "disgust" some people have for certain meals that develop because they simply know a lot of food that tastes much better to them, when your diet is pretty simple your body probably feel better eating "untasty food" than starving.

One last thing is that as things like vitamins and nutrients in general are pretty modern, people didn't bother in having "diverse" diets.

I saw a documentary about Rome a while back, and they said most of the time this is how people ate.

There wasn't space nor a designated room for their "kitchens" so they didn't prepare nor eat anything at home and instead went out in public to do so.