[post_page_title]But washing your hands before eating wasn’t[/post_page_title]
The nobility and of course the royal family were expected to exhibit proper dining etiquette and not just go hog wild on some roast chicken. Of course, the Middle Ages were centuries ago, so we can’t really expect their table manners to have been perfect.
Perhaps the biggest gross-out for modern diners was that everyone took their food from a common plate using their hands – although royals were more refined, using just three fingers. Forks existed in Byzantine society as far back as the 12th century, but wouldn’t appear in the West until the 16th-17th centuries. Hey, speaking of forks…
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