Jamestown Settlers Favorite Food? — Each Other
The rumors have been around forever that the early Jamestown settlers were forced to resort to cannibalism to survive. According to a report from 1624, "Hogs, Dogs & horses that were then in the Colony, together with rats, mice, snakes, or what vermin or carrion soever we could light on, as also Toad-stools, Jewes ears, or what else we found growing upon the ground that would fill either