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Oh What A Time...
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The King's Sunday Roast
There were 20 different kinds of meat and fish served at the Sunday roast. Ham, bacon and pork from 15 pigs and piglets plus three dishes of boar. Six deer, five swans, five spoonbills. And the best of all was an eighth of a pork voice. The king wasn't sticking to things but things didn't stop there. Between 1563 and 1585 every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday and all of Lent it was illegal to eat meat. So you were not allowed to eat meat on a Wednesday, Friday or Saturday. Later during the reign of Elizabeth I another statue was added to that law aimed at restricting the consumption of meat andFish days.
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