Hollywood would have you believe that if you lived during medieval times and didn't have the good fortune to be born into a noble family, you were forced to survive by eating thin soup, gruel and the occasional rabbit. In this video, the good folks at Modern History TV set the record straight.
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12:12 pm Fri
Dec 28, 2018
Medieval peasant food was frigging delicious
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