AHC: Beans most popular crop in Europe

Do you know why people will eat meat over legumes?

I mean, is this a human thing? A social thing?

I'm not sure the science is in on it, but it does seem to have a biological component. Meat pushes neurological buttons, same as fat and sugar do. But in Europe, it's also, and majorly, a social thing. Look at e.g. India or CHina for comparison. Europeans have been conditioned over generations that a "real" meal includes meat, unless it is specifically one designed to be abstemious. Being a vegetarian in a Europeanb culinary context is ridiculously difficult (one reason why so many vegetarians turn to non-European cuilinary traditions).
 
And while I don't think it is used in Europe, what a lot of people did is use the corn stalks to grown beans on. If you time it right, you can grown corn, squash, and beans in the same location.

that's a popular thing to do with box gardens, especially here in the north, with short growing seasons. In fact, someone at work was talking to me about this a couple of days ago... IIRC, it was corn, beans, and pumpkins...
 

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Do you know why people will eat meat over legumes?

I mean, is this a human thing? A social thing?

A bit of both, but we're pretty much programmed to crave fat, salt and in general meat, as it's pretty much the most convenient way to get everything needed to run our brains and cover a couple things we can't create through our own metabolic processes.

Legumes come close, but it's harder to do right, and more labor-intensive as opposed to having goat, mutton or pork.

In most western societies, not having meat in your normal diet was a mark of poverty. Thus, when people could afford it, they'd have meat, and lots of it.
 
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