What type of food did the pre-Roman Celts eat and drink? Are

Mainland Celts or British Celts?

Pliny wrote that the Gauls made cheese, and the Irish were described as eaters of porridge and milk before they got potatoes.

According to Columella, cows were rare North of rome and "barbarians" ate and drank sheep products instead. Strabo agrees that the Gauls had large flocks of sheep.

Cows did not replace goats and sheep as primary dairy-producers in Britain until the Saxons.

>>2434755
This is really interesting. I thought the barbarian Germanic tribes lived off cows and the meat and dairy they produce. Totally changes my perspective of the Germanics to think they were sheep herders.

>>2434755
>>2434818

THOSE ARE ONLY THE TURANIZED GERMANICS, AND CELTS; NOT ALL GERMANICS, AND CELTS, WERE HERDERS.

>>2434818
Roman sources say pigs were the most common meat in south Gaul while beef was common in the north. Julius Caesar said the Germans ate mainly fresh game. Venison, elk, fish, birds, that kind of stuff. They were not very skilled in agriculture, unlike the Gauls.

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>>2434755
Cows have been prominent in Irish mythology as the main staple of the economy and the most prized treasure of war since before the seventh century, when the first account of the Ulster cycle was recorded. The Ulster cycle itself took place in or around the first century, and the prize bull Donn Cúailnge is a driving plot point.

If you are going to make pronouncements about pre-Roman Celtic Irish culture, you need to rely not solely on highly second-hand Greco-Roman accounts, but also on early Irish Christian written sources and oral traditions.

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>>2437668
In fact, to be a participatory citizen in early Gaelic society, above a slave or helot, you had to own cattle. The Irish term 'Bóaire' synonymous with citizen or freeman in other societies literally translates to 'Cow Lord'.

>>2437668
>the existence of an animal on an island means that it was the primary source of food despite goats and sheep yielding a higher volume of milk and Ireland's commercial dairy industry not being invented until over a thousand years later

Okay Shaquille Mulligan from Philadelphia, enjoy your headcanon.

>>2437707
Whoa, so Ireland had access to time travel technology that caused titles created during their medieval period to exist concurrently with Ancient Rome? Damn... so this... is the power... of plastic paddies...