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On the other hand, according to Julius Caesar in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico [1]:

[The Germani] do not pay much attention to agriculture, and a large portion of their food consists in milk, cheese, and flesh.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples#Collision_wit...

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Indeed, eating beans instead of meat was a mark of civilization for the Romans because legumes are an agricultural product, whereas meat is hunted and only savages go hunting. This extended to the legions, they ran on legumes and wheat. There are reports of mutinies, when the legume ration ran out in the field.

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