What is dinnertime like in your home? When do you eat your big meal of the day?
When people lived in castles, they ate their big meal at ten thirty in the morning. It was a very long meal. It was finished about one o’clock in the afternoon. Some of the foods were bread, meat, fish, eggs, milk, and pie. They sometimes put birds into pies. When someone cut the pie, the birds flew out. People didn’t eat potatoes, and because rice cost a lot of money, they didn’t eat rice very often.
People washed their hands before they ate. They put their food on old bread because they didn’t use dishes. They picked up their food with their hands and fingers because they didn’t have any forks. When the meal was over, they gave the old bread to the poor to eat.