stackyFACTSTucking a napkin into your collar is modern child's play. High-end diners in the 1600s threw massive swathes of fabric exclusively over their left shoulder to casually wipe their mouths between massive courses.
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Aggressively eating a massive feast while sitting entirely naked in a tub of warm water with strangers was completely normalized in medieval society.
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A proper 18th-century spread was less about taste and more about strict geometry. If there was a bowl of soup on the left, there had to be an exact, identical…
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Fine china was centuries away, meaning you aggressively ate your daily gruel out of a slightly scooped-out wooden plank like a mildly civilized farm animal.
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In 17th-century European courts, the ultimate VIP ticket wasn't a party—it was standing in a crowded bedroom watching the king get out of bed, put on a shirt,…
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Before the luxury of individual glassware, an entire table of aristocrats would simply pass one massive, slobber-covered cup around the table, taking turns…
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Instead of doing the dishes, medieval diners simply ate their stew off a hard slab of ancient carbohydrates and then tossed the soggy mess to the dogs.
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