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Feb. 22nd, 2008 08:55 pmWhy do so many "medieval banquets" sport dishes with potatoes?
They didn't have potatoes in the Middle Ages as far as I remember (not that I was there in person, but.). Everybody learns that we didn't get potatoes before, you know, the final discovery of America, where them taters come from. And even then they weren't eaten for a long time but rather cultivated for their pretty flowers.
Yet pretty much every "medieval banquet" I've ever attended or read the menu of contains potatoes (usually baked).
It's not like I care, because I'm playing more in fantasy than in history settings. But why is the baked potato so widely spread in so-called medieval banquets when basically everybody knows it wouldn't have been there? It's not like you couldn't put beans or bread or, most realistically, gruel on the table so people get their carbohydrates, no?
It does make me wonder.
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( Wieso eigentlich... )
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They didn't have potatoes in the Middle Ages as far as I remember (not that I was there in person, but.). Everybody learns that we didn't get potatoes before, you know, the final discovery of America, where them taters come from. And even then they weren't eaten for a long time but rather cultivated for their pretty flowers.
Yet pretty much every "medieval banquet" I've ever attended or read the menu of contains potatoes (usually baked).
It's not like I care, because I'm playing more in fantasy than in history settings. But why is the baked potato so widely spread in so-called medieval banquets when basically everybody knows it wouldn't have been there? It's not like you couldn't put beans or bread or, most realistically, gruel on the table so people get their carbohydrates, no?
It does make me wonder.
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( Wieso eigentlich... )
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