SC - feastware question

[CorwynWdwd at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/14/98 2:41:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, him at gte.net
writes:

> WHY, if man has been making pottery since prehistory, does everyone say my
>12th cent. feast needs to  have wooden/bread trenchers or metal?  Why was
>pottery not vogue in that time? I  just got through looking at a site that
has >beautiful late anglo-saxon reproduction pottery on it.   (from historical
dig site >finds) What time frame was that?

The explanation I was given was that for FEASTS.. where you'd have a lot of
guests, trenchers were used sort of like paper plates are today. Unlike our
Medieval ancestors, we carry our feast gear from place to place. The trenchers
have the advantage of being quick, and disposable (As the soiled trenchers
could be given as alms for the poor).

CAUTION: I'm not a historian of any stripe. This explanation is probably
supposition, and I have NO documentation for it.

Corwyn
Kingdom of Atlantia
Barony of Nottinghill Coill
Canton of FalconCree
MKA Greenville SC
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