
2. Story of England: Medieval Invaders
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The History of the Courtly Lollie
Roland the fart must have had a dreadful condition that meant he could go on demand, I mean even execution as we know was a huge part of entertainment in courtly lollie. So Sally you've got a great story on the ground floor, would that have been filled with food the whole time, would it try to get spoils, it goes off doesn't it? Particularly in winter it's thought that there was very few places you could store food,. so they would have a lot of salted meats which would then be jazzed up by the cooks. No plant aden ever tasted potato or tomato, they were missing out on that.
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