[Oatka]

In fact, scholars estimate that bread made up 50–75 percent of the average person's diet. It was the food staple of the ancient world.

In one episode in the first series of "Connections", James Burke explained that bread was called the Staff of Life because everything you ate then was a side dish to bread. It was only when times got better that meat became the main entree.

That episode came to mind every time I saw the WWII videos showing the German soldiers wolfing down huge slabs of black bread.

[SunkenCiv]

This *may* be that episode. His vids are old favorites, despite his leftie politics.

https://archive.org/details/james-burke-connections_s01e08