Question about old SFUK article/post

Hi Dave I remember an article or post years ago on SFUK where you were talking about old time wrestlers.

You mentioned one of the old school guys who was practically vegetarian. Just wondered if you could remember who it was and what his main source of protein was.

Thanks

Hi John in fact there were more than one who were veggies or near.. but maybe its in the description of what is a vegetarian

George Hackenshmidt ate mainly fruit and veg (mainly RAW) but drunk quite a lot of whole milk.. (I dont think they even KNEW how to skim it back then)
George could knock back 4-6 pints a day no sweats.

Karl Pojello would eat as above but included eggs.

there are quite a few other examples as well..

however their version of being a vegetarian would often include milk and/or eggs.

That would be their main sources...

thanks John .. hope you are well

Thanks for the reply. Yes, Im well thanks but I've given up MMA deciding that 'discretion is the better bart of valour' after aggrevating an old leg injury a month or two back.

The reason I asked is that although I'm not a vegetarian I don't eat meat. Most of my protein comes from tinned salmon, tinned tuna, frozen white-fish or Quorn but I'm tweaking my diet a bit in order to lose a bit of weight.

So far, knocking out carbs except for spuds, sweet potato and porridge and gettign calories from fresh fruit and veg instead seems to be working but I thought it might be worth asking about the old wrestlers' diets

Mind you John. some of them would eat ANYTHING..

I cant remember which one said it to me but the statement was;;

Whether its covered in Fur or feather or scales or leather .. I'll eat it

others were less easy going..

the thing with most of the Victorian and Edwradian eras wrestlers is that they ate most of their veg RAW....

However, I remember Harold Wrigley (Rasputin the mad Monk .. complete with monk's Cowl ).. he prefered a kind of 'stew' ... every veg he could throw in, he would.. it ended up like big hot pot with no meat.. actually it was bloody tasty.. he would eat platesful of it

Vegetable stew is great. The key to it is to include as many veg as possible and at least one with a strong flavour; e.g celery or parsnip