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Wade Cates

Interesting history!

They used to use urine to tan animal skins,
so families used to all pee in a pot & then
once a day it was taken & sold to the
tannery.
If you had to do this to survive you
were "piss poor."

But worse than that were the really poor
folk who couldn't even afford to buy a pot;
they "didn't have a pot to piss in" & were
the lowest of the low.


The next time you are washing your hands
& complain because the water temperature
isn't just how you like it, think about how
things used to be. Here are some facts about
the 1500s.


Most people got married in June because
they took their yearly bath in May, and they
still smelled pretty good by June. Since they
were starting to smell, however, brides
carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the
body odor. Hence the custom today of
carrying a bouquet when getting married.


Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot
water. The man of the house had the
privilege of the nice clean water, then all the
other sons and men, then the women, and
finally the children. Last of all the babies. By
then the water was so dirty you could
actually lose someone in it . . . hence the
saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the
Bath water!"


Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled
high, with no wood underneath. It was the
only place for animals to get warm, so all the
cats and other small animals (mice, bugs)
lived in the roof. When it rained it became
slippery and sometimes the animals would
slip and fall off the roof, resulting in the
idiom, "It's raining cats and dogs."


There was nothing to stop things from
falling into the house. This posed a real
problem in the bedroom where bugs and
other droppings could mess up your nice
clean bed, therefore, a bed with big posts
and a sheet hung over the top afforded
some protection. That's how canopy beds
came into existence.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had
something other than dirt, leading folks to
coin the phrase "dirt poor."

The wealthy had slate floors that would get
slippery in the winter when wet, so they
spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep
their footing. As the winter wore on, they
added more thresh until, when you opened
the door, it would all start slipping outside. A
piece of wood was placed in the entrance-
way, subsequently creating a "thresh hold."
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In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen
with a big kettle that always hung over the
fire.. Every day they lit the fire and added
things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables
and did not get much meat. They would eat
the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the
pot to get cold overnight and then start over
the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it
that had been there for quite a while, and
thus the rhyme, "Peas porridge hot, peas
porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine
days old."


Sometimes they could obtain pork, which
made them feel quite special. When visitors
came over, they would hang up their bacon
to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a
man could, "bring home the bacon." They
would cut off a little to share with guests
and would all sit around and "chew the fat."
Those with money had plates made of
pewter. Food with high acid content caused
some of the lead to leach onto the food,
causing lead poisoning death. This
happened most often with tomatoes, so for
the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were
considered poisonous.


Bread was divided according to status.
Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf,
the family got the middle, and guests got the
top, or the "upper crust."
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky.

The combination would sometimes knock
the imbibers out for a couple of days.


Someone walking along the road would
take them for dead and prepare them for
burial.. They were laid out on the kitchen
table for a couple of days and the family
would gather around and eat and drink and
wait and see if they would wake up,
creating the custom of holding a wake.
England is old and small and the local folks
started running out of places to bury people.
So they would dig up coffins and would take
the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the
grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out
of 25 coffins were found to have scratch
marks on the inside and they realized they
had been burying people alive, so they
would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse,
lead it through the coffin and up through
the ground and tie it to a bell.

Someone
would have to sit out in the graveyard all
night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the
bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the
bell or was considered a dead ringer.


And that's the truth. Now, whoever said

History was boring?
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Educative.

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