stackyFACTSYou didn't go out for a massive steak dinner; you went out to sip hot meat water because you felt a little bit under the weather and lacked modern medicine.
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Getting that absolutely perfect umami flavor required massive wooden barrels and a level of deep culinary patience modern humanity no longer possesses.
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Tucking 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…
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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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You weren't actually supposed to eat the outside pastry; it functioned as medieval Tupperware designed solely to bake and hold the questionable meat inside.
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Before the glorious invention of smooth milk chocolate processing, snacking on cocoa felt uncomfortably close to chewing on sweetened, slightly acidic dirt.
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Paying premium prices for slimy mollusks served on ice is a tragic modern grift. In the 19th century, oysters were so wildly overabundant and cheap that…
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