Whiskey as a Meal
In addition to pork and beans, one of the main “foods” during the California Gold Rush was a glass of whiskey. Drinking whiskey as a meal wasn’t out of the ordinary, and all meals at the time were just as simple and as you would think. Since this was before railroads were built, they couldn’t receive anything from other places.
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Therefore, most of the meals in the Wild West came from the wild. Whenever they could, cowboys and pioneers would hunt their meals. But once the settlements started to develop, diverse recipes and more food products were available. They no longer had to worry about hunting just to get food on the table.