Talk:Famine food

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Food and drink, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of food and drink related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Food and drinkWikipedia:WikiProject Food and drinkTemplate:WikiProject Food and drinkFood and drink articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Food and Drink task list:

To edit this page, select here

Here are some tasks you can do for WikiProject Food and drink:

Help bring these Top Importance articles currently B Status or below up to GA status: Agaricus bisporus (i.e. mushroom), Beef, Bread, Curry, Drink, Food, Ham and eggs, Soy sauce, Sushi, Yogurt
Bring these Top Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA status: Beer, French cuisine, Sugar
Bring these High Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA status: Apple, Burger King, Fish
Participate in project-related deletion discussions.
Delete unrelated trivia sections found in articles. Please review WP:Trivia and WP:Handling trivia to learn how to do this.
Add the {{WikiProject Food and drink}} project banner to food and drink related articles and content to help bring them to the attention of members. For a complete list of banners for WikiProject Food and drink and its child projects, select here.
Provide photographs and images for Category:Wikipedia requested images of food
Consider joining this project's Assessment task force. List any project ideas in this section

Note: These lists are transcluded from the project's tasks pages.

Lentils?[edit]

Although not taboo, I feel the association of lentils and poverty (c.f. The Young Ones, although I'm sure there are others) shouldn't be passed over. 204.213.244.97 (talk) 00:40, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ramen?[edit]

I would say in the US (and it may be so in Japan), ramen is considered a poverty food, traditionally eaten by broke students and young adults. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.65.182.247 (talk) 20:38, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Juniper berries[edit]

At both Bryce Canyon NP and Arches NM some years ago, rangers stated that local Indians ate juniper berries in times of drought or famine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.237.150.151 (talk) 18:19, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Rutabagas in Germany[edit]

"Rutabagas were widely used as a food of last resort in Europe during World War I and World War II, and remain particularly unpopular in Germany." ??? What German sources does this originate from? In Northern Germany it's a fall and winter food staple and considered as quite tasty these days. Unpopular? My foot. 2602:306:30BA:28A0:ACA3:725E:2141:FDB4 (talk) 10:02, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, unsourced and improbable. I've removed it. (Perhaps "remain unpopular" was seen somewhere in a comment from about 1946.) Sminthopsis84 (talk) 14:31, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Turnip Winter 85.70.1.208 (talk) 16:07, 22 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

ref[edit]

Sorry I don't much know how to contribute, but reference 21 can be found at the following URL, but it does not mention capers. Also, reference 22 discusses a different genus in the same genus that is not capers.

https://reliefweb.int/report/ethiopia/wild-food-plants-southern-ethiopia-reflections-role-famine-foods-time-drought — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.143.227.40 (talk) 13:28, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Impact of Ukrainian-Russian War of 2022[edit]

Howard from NYC (talk) 15:03, 2 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Q: any indication of which poverty foods being resorted to by impoverished people as result of supply chain disruption?