• Isa@feddit.org
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    Interesting as well, as well … disgusting! I’m glad, that I wasn’t born into that era.

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      The past is very often a brutal place! We live in deeply imperfect times in the modern day, and should not be satisfied with the flaws our societies have now, but it’s good to reflect every once in a while how far we’ve come.

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        True (even though some try with all their might to turn back to the “great old times”).

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            Order a chicken next time you go out to eat and pretend you’re King Richard the Lionheart about to be captured for eating too good while undercover.

            Chicken was a not-uncommon meat for commoners, but still expensive enough so that if some traveler (who SHOULD be saving their money carefully) comes into a local tavern which wasn’t planned on cooking any chickens today and says “Slaughter me, and me specifically, a chicken”, he’s clearly got money to spare.