stackyFACTSForget using a polite little discard plate. During elaborate 17th-century banquets, the accepted method of disposing of your unwanted food scraps was simply aggressively chucking them directly onto the dining room floor.
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You quite literally had to build your table from scratch before every single meal, which is exactly where the phrase 'turning the tables' originates.
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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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Long before modern novelty restaurants, 19th-century European elite threw literal 'dark dinners' where everything from the room to the food was completely…
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You simply had to pinch the scalding hot porcelain with your bare fingers and aggressively hope you didn't drop boiling liquid directly onto your lap.
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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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