Famine food

Foods associated with famine need not be nutritionally deficient, or unsavory.

In times of relative affluence, these foods may become the targets of social stigma and rejection.

For example, cultures that consider cats and dogs to be taboo foods have historically consumed them during times of famine.

[citation needed] The characterization of some foodstuffs as "famine" or "poverty" food can be social.

[citation needed] A number of foodstuffs have been strongly associated with famine, war, or times of hardship throughout history:

Breads made of orache and bran , fried in machine oil , were used as food in besieged Leningrad . [ citation needed ]
Breadnuts