SC - > So long as we are making assumptions on what the poorest folk
Jenne Heise
jenne at mail.browser.net
Fri Oct 27 14:54:47 PDT 2000
> I think I am losing track of the original assertion we were discussing. I thought there
> was an assertion that amounted to "spices (black pepper in specific) were common
> among peasants".
No, I beleive the original assertion was that peasants would not have had
access to spices except that flavoring whatever largesse was distributed.
> I'm not saying it ain't so, just that from my deduction, based on presented evidence, it
> is more likely that spices were a pretty rare investment for this group of people.
I don't disagree on this point, that it would be a pretty rare investment.
I simply disagree with the person who said that they would never have had
spices.
> (I almost forgot, I think that a pennyworth of spice would be a pennyweight (dwt) -
> one 20th of an ounce - rather than what a penny would buy, which would mean it could
> easily cost more than a penny; e.g. saffron is oft sold by pennyweight)
Yes, I was making a point about the possibility of buying not a pound, but
a quanitity costing a penny-- the use of the term pennyworth or
pennyweight is unnecessarily confusing in my argument.
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