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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by historical food sources.

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Because once upon a time, not everything was made from corn.

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Check out the following passage.

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All right, in what context would you expect

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to see this passage? And here are the potential answers.

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Let's get into it.

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We can begin by eliminating option B. The Middle Ages

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and the Middle East are not the same thing, people.

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The only thing they have in common is the word "middle."

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And it that weren't enough, this passage,

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well, it might be about Middle Earth. That'd be kind of cool.

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Yeah, after all, hobbits do love food.

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My precious.

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Option C is the next to go.

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Chronologically speaking, the 19th century was during the 1800s.

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And the 1800s were definitely not the Middle Ages.

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So it's pretty unlikely we'd find information about medieval food

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in a novel about 19th century France.

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We can eliminate option D, too.

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Although the number of modern day fad diets is immense,

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well, we've yet to hear of the medieval serf diet.

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But maybe one day, right?

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Well, but for now, we can safely get rid of D.

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That makes option A the correct answer.

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The passage is giving us specific information about

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the day-to-day diet of common people during the Middle Ages.

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And where might we find that?

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Exactly - a book about the life

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of medieval common people.

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That might be a good place to start.

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Now we're off to start our new diet.

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We were thinking about going paleo, but, uh,

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well, there's no way we're giving up potato chips.

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