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Pyramid workers paid in vegetables

Posted on July 6, 2017August 6, 2020 by mart
Pyramid workers paid in vegetables

Inscriptions inside the ancient pyramids in Egypt show that part of the workers pay was in beer, onions, garlic and radishes. It is estimated that it probably took 20,000 to 30,000 men, setting stones at a rate of one every two minutes, approximately 20 years to set the 2.3 million Continue Reading

Posted In Egypt, FoodTagged In beer, garlic, onion, pyramid, radish

S.P.A.M., SPAM, spam (and lobster thermidor)

Posted on May 27, 2017 by mart

SPAM luncheon meat was first produced in the Depression era in the United States (1937), by the Hormel Foods Corporation.  It was named by Ken Daigneau who had won a contest (and $100).  Ken was the brother of a Hormel Vice-President, but that may be entirely coincidental. Hormel insist that the Continue Reading

Posted In Britain, Computers, Food, Modern Age, USATagged In email, monty python

Richard II’s Sausage and Meatball Pie

Posted on May 8, 2017 by mart

The Forme of Cury is a cookbook of about 200 recipes written in the 14th Century by “the Chief Master Cooks of Richard II”. Richard II was an unpopular King but he did like a luxurious lifestyle and taxed the peasants to fund it.  He was eventually deposed and died in Continue Reading

Posted In Britain, Food, Middle Ages, MonarchyTagged In form of cury, richard II

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