SC - trencher history guesses

[Helen]

> You're mixing manners and classes.  The rabble are invariably unrefined
> brutes, who do not come up to the standards of the rich and powerful.  Since
> they are not so refined or wealth, they commit such an obvious faux pas as
> eating their trenchers, if they have trenchers to eat.
>
> Bear
>

I do not think I am mixing up anything.  I said, I did not think that the
average jack would have thrown away the bread under their food.  I think they
would have eaten the bread.  I think the whole "trencher manners" thing is not
the norm for all the people in the medieval time.


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