Meat, eggs, and probably tubers. They could easily kept enough livestock within keep to feed the Starks, staff, and guard. Plus what is surplus could be salted and stored. Then there's all that complimentary trade.
They don't have anything stored. They have been a war for months/years. All supplies were devoted to the war effort. No harvests were made and crops burned. Winterfell has taken and ransacked multiple times.
Meat, eggs, and probably tubers. They could easily kept enough livestock within keep to feed the Starks, staff, and guard. Plus what is surplus could be salted and stored. Then there's all that complimentary trade.
>all that complimentary trade
yeah major trading hub, the castle in the middle of fricking nowhere that is guarded by a massive river and bog and is 500 miles inland
Roads existed and, yes, there is money to be made by going to the de facto capital of the North especially moving goods from farther away places. Plus Winterfell would've likely been involved with some overseas trade via White Harbor.
what good does the stupid wall around the gay little woods do? You gonna station men to fight and die to defend that area that serves no defensive purpose to a siege?
>Such food Bran had never seen; course after course after course, so much that he could not manage more than a bite or two of each dish. There were great joints of aurochs roasted with leeks, venison pies chunky with carrots, bacon, and mushrooms, mutton chops sauced in honey and cloves, savory duck, peppered boar, goose, skewers of pigeon and capon, beef-and-barley stew, cold fruit soup. Lord Wyman had brought twenty casks of fish from White Harbor packed in salt and seaweed; whitefish and winkles, crabs and mussels, clams, herring, cod, salmon, lobster and lampreys. There was black bread and honeycakes and oaten biscuits; there were turnips and pease and beets, beans and squash and huge red onions; there were baked apples and berry tarts and pears poached in strongwine. Wheels of white cheese were set at every table, above and below the salt, and flagons of hot spice wine and chilled autumn ale were passed up and down the tables. >The serving men brought every dish to Bran first, that he might take the lord's portion if he chose. By the time they reached the ducks, he could eat no more. After that he nodded approval at each course in turn, and waved it away. If the dish smelled especially choice, he would send it to one of the lords on the dais, a gesture of friendship and favor that Maester Luwin told him he must make. >He sent some salmon down to poor sad Lady Hornwood, the boar to the boisterous Umbers, a dish of goose-in-berries to Cley Cerwyn, and a huge lobster to Joseth the master of horse, who was neither lord nor guest, but had seen to Dancer's training and made it possible for Bran to ride. He sent sweets to Hodor and Old Nan as well, for no reason but he loved them. Ser Rodrik reminded him to send something to his foster brothers, so he sent Little Walder some boiled beets and Big Walder the buttered turnips.
The books go into how Winterfell gets its food quite a bit. There's a settlement to the west where a lot of serfs do farming and in exchange they get to remain inside Winterfell or its adjoining town during winter months. A certain amount of harvest (1/5th usually) is retained as reserve for winter and heavily preserved with salt and tins. The North and they are able to grow root vegetables even into autumn seasons. Despite this, while the nobility and those in the immediately vicinity of Winterfell or other large castles/settlements do okay, there's still pretty large scale famine every winter which is why it's looked upon with so much fear
Now the only issue with this really is it's not really realistic that a feudal primitive farming society could possibly store enough food to last multiple years.
it's supposed to be a lot bigger than that.
that looks like the core of Winterfell only and someone forgot the rest. fits several thousand and has an adjacent town for the serfs to gather
they should have built it up on a hill or something
Food duh
whatever they had stored, presumably salted/preserved meats, grains, pickled stuff, etc
They don't have anything stored. They have been a war for months/years. All supplies were devoted to the war effort. No harvests were made and crops burned. Winterfell has taken and ransacked multiple times.
Okay well no specific time period was mentioned so "in general" was the focus point.
Meat, eggs, and probably tubers. They could easily kept enough livestock within keep to feed the Starks, staff, and guard. Plus what is surplus could be salted and stored. Then there's all that complimentary trade.
>They could easily kept enough livestock within keep to feed the Starks, staff, and guard.
Livestock that grazed on my ice?
>all that complimentary trade
yeah major trading hub, the castle in the middle of fricking nowhere that is guarded by a massive river and bog and is 500 miles inland
Roads existed and, yes, there is money to be made by going to the de facto capital of the North especially moving goods from farther away places. Plus Winterfell would've likely been involved with some overseas trade via White Harbor.
snowcones
what good does the stupid wall around the gay little woods do? You gonna station men to fight and die to defend that area that serves no defensive purpose to a siege?
apparently winterfell had a greenhouse so presumably they had fresh produce
What do you think those giant grain silos are for
>towers with open air penthouses
Well whoop de fricking doo.
somehow, one small greenhouse sustained all of winterfell and their smallfolk
Bacon burnt black and crusty bread to mop up the grease and a mug of al to wash it down
>Such food Bran had never seen; course after course after course, so much that he could not manage more than a bite or two of each dish. There were great joints of aurochs roasted with leeks, venison pies chunky with carrots, bacon, and mushrooms, mutton chops sauced in honey and cloves, savory duck, peppered boar, goose, skewers of pigeon and capon, beef-and-barley stew, cold fruit soup. Lord Wyman had brought twenty casks of fish from White Harbor packed in salt and seaweed; whitefish and winkles, crabs and mussels, clams, herring, cod, salmon, lobster and lampreys. There was black bread and honeycakes and oaten biscuits; there were turnips and pease and beets, beans and squash and huge red onions; there were baked apples and berry tarts and pears poached in strongwine. Wheels of white cheese were set at every table, above and below the salt, and flagons of hot spice wine and chilled autumn ale were passed up and down the tables.
>The serving men brought every dish to Bran first, that he might take the lord's portion if he chose. By the time they reached the ducks, he could eat no more. After that he nodded approval at each course in turn, and waved it away. If the dish smelled especially choice, he would send it to one of the lords on the dais, a gesture of friendship and favor that Maester Luwin told him he must make.
>He sent some salmon down to poor sad Lady Hornwood, the boar to the boisterous Umbers, a dish of goose-in-berries to Cley Cerwyn, and a huge lobster to Joseth the master of horse, who was neither lord nor guest, but had seen to Dancer's training and made it possible for Bran to ride. He sent sweets to Hodor and Old Nan as well, for no reason but he loved them. Ser Rodrik reminded him to send something to his foster brothers, so he sent Little Walder some boiled beets and Big Walder the buttered turnips.
You can tell how fat GRRM is by reading his descriptions of food.
Do you little snipes parrot everything you've picked up from the mob, or just the oldest crowings?
Thats a lot of words to say absolutely nothing, much like the books. Frick off GRRM
You're actually just a little illiterate, Sven.
Finish the fricking books, George. I want Fire and Blood Part II.
This looks like a fat sack of shit wrote it
The books go into how Winterfell gets its food quite a bit. There's a settlement to the west where a lot of serfs do farming and in exchange they get to remain inside Winterfell or its adjoining town during winter months. A certain amount of harvest (1/5th usually) is retained as reserve for winter and heavily preserved with salt and tins. The North and they are able to grow root vegetables even into autumn seasons. Despite this, while the nobility and those in the immediately vicinity of Winterfell or other large castles/settlements do okay, there's still pretty large scale famine every winter which is why it's looked upon with so much fear
Now the only issue with this really is it's not really realistic that a feudal primitive farming society could possibly store enough food to last multiple years.
potatoes
Snowcones
They bred and ate giant's.
Giant's what?
testicles, rocky mountain oysters.
They toss the rest of the body in the garbage
it's supposed to be a lot bigger than that.
that looks like the core of Winterfell only and someone forgot the rest. fits several thousand and has an adjacent town for the serfs to gather