Vile things? Period food is just like modern food. It can be horrible only if the cook is bad and doesn't understand what he/she is doing. Fish pasties probably aren't that much different from fish tacos from Taco Bell, with the exception of tomatoes and hot sauce. What was is about the fish pasties that you didn't like? Would you eat beef pasties? Or is it that you just don't like fish? What was it about the venison sausage that you didn't like? Do you eat hot dogs? Do you eat bratwurst? Both of those are descended from period food, so if you eat hot dogs or bratwurst, you really are eating period food. Do you like macaroni and cheese? Well, mac and cheese is descended from a period recipe. Chicken nuggets also.

Frankly, from your rant, I doubt that you would know what period food was.

And, just to be mean but truthful, cheese is really rotten milk, sometimes made with a calf's stomach lining to make the curds, and sometimes allowed to go moldy, like bleu cheese, camembert and brie. I am not kidding. And if you like, there are a ton of horror stories about what goes into Taco Bell's food. I would rather eat a bad cook's period attempts than anything that ever came out of Taco Bell or MacDonald's.