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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wilphe" data-source="post: 1206286" data-attributes="member: 8221">That's not a bad markup,  a lot depends on where the inn is. If the inn is in a major town then animals will be being slaughtered all the time and fresh pork will be easy to get hold of. If it's a hamlet in the middle of nowhere the innkeeper might have to slaughter a pig specially if someone's ordered it.    Most fresh meat in that situation would be poultry or game. Pork would almost certainly be preserved bacon, sausage or salt meat.Of course, 99% of people in a realistic medieval world will have some ability, time and land to spend farming, even the urban craftsmen. Food security is more important, even if you could earn more cash by working as a blacksmith full time.Orthadox market economics is of no use in such a situation - which is one reason why most 3rd World GDP figures understate the countries' true wealth as it only works out the value of what is traded, rather than what is consumed.</blockquote>