Pie crusts were once just medieval Tupperware
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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History →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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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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The flour dough was so incredibly tough that weary bakers literally had to stomp all over it for hours just to ensure you had spaghetti.
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Without an electric kettle, just making a cup of hot water required building a fire from scratch, hauling heavy iron, and waiting half the morning.
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Reigniting a hearth without matches was such a tedious, miserable nightmare that peasants just let logs dangerously smolder 24/7 inside their homes.
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You 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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Microwaves made things entirely too easy. Early snackers would take dried kernels and stir them into a pot of scorching hot sand. The intense heat would…
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