You being mean to horses? LOL

In the Netherlands there is a book about Industrial Revolution vicitims, i.e. the poor people who survived literally on a daily wage, from industrial (Linen ratting) work. It is called Afke's Tiental (1907) and is required reading for all young teens. https://www.letterenfonds.nl/en/book/611/afkes-ten

On a similar vein there is Van Gogh's Potato-eaters https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0005v1962 although this only demonstrates how a poor family would eat from one dish and drink tea. It does not show the Canola oil that they dipped their potatos in.

The book desribes how the family ate nothing but potatoes, and could not afford butter, so 'made do' with rape-seed oil (Canola). When I read that book as a child, I learned about rape-seed oil, and how it tasted disgusting and was therefore inferior, compared tto butter. Also, my grandmother who was a well-educated lady, (born 1899) was a stickler about buying Dutch butter, and putting it on, and in, everything. And she was a good cook.

So, seed-oil was considered poverty food around the turn of the 19th to 20th Century. The Second World War changed Dutch people's attitudes because the Germans took all the butter. So, EVERYONE had tinned margarine instead, from the ration cards. My mum hated marge for that reason.