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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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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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Where you sat in relation to the table salt determined your entire worth as a human being. Massive, elaborate salt cellars were placed in the middle of long…
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There were zero substitutions and definitely no dietary requests. You simply sat down, read the scrap of paper, and ate the mystery stew in silence.
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Forget using a polite little discard plate. During elaborate 17th-century banquets, the accepted method of disposing of your unwanted food scraps was simply…
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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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