Poor and hungry peasants would eat dormice during winter because it is a good protein source.

"Well, the peasants will eat well in the morning," Matt sighed.

Even the common folk ate meat, fish and fresh fruit at a time when the famine-racked peasants to the north were eating each other.

In addition the peasants don't eat sheep meat.

In the old country the peasants ate hemp butter.

When they were starving in the 1950's, he instructed: "Educate peasants to eat less, and have more thin gruel.

Even Chinese peasants eat better than poor Russians.

It was believed by some that peasants ate poorly because they preferred eating poorly.

But although peasants ate better, agricultural production did not increase in the way most government officials expected.

The peasant did not require to be invited twice, but got up and ate.