
Medieval Christmas (Radio Edit)
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Christmassy Foods
Peacock twizzlers would be very disappointing, wouldn't they? The other main Christmassy food, I think, would be a particularly soggy pie. In terms of Kings, we've got in 1213 King John, who's obviously notorious for Magna Carta,. but his guests ate 400 head of pork, 3,000 fowl, 15,000 herring, 10,000 eels. 100 pounds of almonds, 2 pounds of spices and 66 pounds of pepper, 66 pounds. That's imported from India. These career statistics, or is this like one Christmas? One, one period. They've gone down to the big shop. Have you got e
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