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The issue is the quality and food safety of those things.
Not really. The concern is the access in diet variety. The person in the screenshot can easily go out and get something they're craving. Not true for midevil persons.
It is definitely also a question of quality. Not just because the concept of food safety was non-existant back then, but if we are talking about a really poor person, the bread and cheese (and mostly there would be no cheese at all) would be stale, the wine full of dregs, but watered down so much that they would barely be able to taste how vinegary it was.