SC - Buckwheat Groats

[Mordonna22@aol.com]

You are mis-using the term trencher and equating it with all levels of
society, which is incorrect.

A trencher is specifically a four day old loaf of the second quality carved
to serve as a plate.  If the bread doesn't meet the specifications, it's a
sop.  Daily bread was used as a sop by all classes.  Sops were eaten, not
given away.  

Because you have to let the loaf dry out to use it as a trencher, trenchers
were limited to classes who could afford surpluses to use in this manner.
That means trenchers were used by the upper classes and the upwardly mobile.
Which means that "trencher manners" were the province of these classes and
were a symbol of their wealth and power.  After all, trenchers produced the
term "upper crust."

Bear
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