>>16552176If a medieval peasant was introduced to modern life they would find our technological advances amazing and be envious but likely view our societal changes as manmade horrors beyond imagination and probably something so 'bad' to them they'd desperately want to return home. It'd vary depending on what you introduced them to - suburbia and say, the japanese example and they'd be having a panic attack at the sheer isolation and loneliness. But if you took them to Mexico and some day laborer then they'd find it not so different.
>>16553914The meat thing is exaggerated, it's simply that the meat they consumed was not going to be ground beef and chicken breast/thigh (the two most popular meats we eat daily) but rather sausages, stewed meats, potted meat and so on. They'll eat meat but it won't be the boutique meat we eat, and it might be every other day or weekly rather than daily at worst, but it's not once in a blue moon only on special occassions. After all, why would you need to prohibit meat on lent and on fridays if not for the fact that it was available and desirous? Not just to the nobles but to the monks, given how much rule lawyering there was by monks about having meat more often.
You won't eat beef often (if at all) because of how valuable the cow is, but the pig literally exists for no purpose but meat. The chicken gives you eggs and can be harvested once it is no longer laying eggs, the cow gives you milk, but the pig you feed scraps and then get a massive bounty of meat that is fairly quick to grow too.