Originally Posted by
snowblizz
The non-sensical part is where it combines stone age foraging, nuts and stuff, with bread of all things. If I can buy and store bread I can buy and store other things from the shop. Like jerky. Or a million pickled things. etc etc etc. Roomtemperature peasoup may not be the tastiest thing but it keeps for years in it's can.
As OP sets it up it makes no sense. Not to mention that they already themselves point out the obvious answer, we have done so for thousands of years. Almost any type of food we ever have eaten has been consumed raw, or preserved without fire and fridges somewhere, somehow. But since the store can do the fire thing that means the amount of foodstuffs multiplies massively.
Before refridgeration they pack oysters in ice and send it long ways inland with trains e.g.