SC - Butchering

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Lord Ras writes:

     >There are no similarities whatsoever between pre-20th century 
     >lifestyles and any lifestyles occuring before then, in any way shape 
     >or form.
     
     I presume, My Lord, that your fingers outpaced your point, and that 
     you meant "post-"20th?
     
     The question raised in the original posting is not trivial, however, 
     at least not if taken in detail.  Period butchering was certainly much 
     different from the modern, not only in mechanical technique but in 
     concept.  The one-serving-per-plate (and one bedroom per person, and 
     so on) concepts that we find comfortable and familiar would have been 
     foreign even to our own countrymen well into the 18th century.
     
     IDHMRAW (new acronym:  I Don't Have My References at Work), but there 
     are numerous archaeological studies (one of the Royal Navy's 
     Victualling Yard in London comes to mind) that speak to such practices 
     in period.  It is a subject well worth investigating.
     
                                        Bjarni
     
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