Meat, fish, and proteins aboard a Pirate Ship | Pirate Food

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In the last video on pirate food we discussed the "potatoes" of pirate diet, being bread, plantains, and a few taters...In this one we'll cover the meat of that discussion, because every bulky seaman needs his proteins to grow big and strong and climb up the foremast. So let's get our bowls out and try to avoid dying from sodium overdose. It's boutta get salty.

0:00 Introduction
0:31 Little Bit Salt
3:29 Fresh Meat and Dairy
5:11 How Pirates Cured Meat
8:03 Turtle
9:50 Hunting
12:35 Desperation
15:02 Outro

Sources
Just like the previous videos on food, these aren't based on a single source but patched together from a multitude of period and modern sources. There exists no singular concise work on the diets of pirates, except for these videos. Below are just a few of the many sources I used and I've probably forgotten to list some.
A New Voyage Round the World - William Dampier
The Buccaneers of America - Alexandre Exquemelin
The Buccaneer's Realm - Benerson Little
The Republic of Pirates - Colin Woodard
Pitman's account - Henry Pitman
Pirates In Their Own Words - E.T Fox

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