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gascan on Aug 24, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: I'm Wil Wheaton. I Live with Chronic Depression an...

OK, but you can eat fresh corn-fed beef, grass-fed beef, chicken, bison, venison, kangaroo, turkey, tuna, salmon, halibut, duck, swordfish, pork, lamb, sheep, eel, clam, oyster, mussel, lobster, crab, ... shall I go on?

petermcneeley on Aug 25, 2018 [–]

I myself have a pretty basic palate but the kings did enjoy quite a variety of foods. http://www.picturebritain.com/2012/11/whatdidhenryVIIIeat.ht...

Either way the point is that Materially the kings were exceedingly wealthy and if you just translate what they had to today they still remain so.

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