I'm the peasant who puts something in that actively clashes with the general flavor palette under the justification that I am 'adding a little bite to it'
If it can't kill the lords and bourgies with a mere whiff, there's not enough onions in yet.
id probably do beekeeping because the actual tech behind modern beekeeping isnt particularly complex but it took us forever to figure out the optimal hive storage design. so just some basic woodworking and biology skills would allow you to produce a fuckton more honey than everyone else
so what im saying is a fuckton of honey
Have you ever seen medieval drawings of bees? They're hilarious. Or this one that for some reason drew them as like trout with bird wings
Bees are the smallest of birds, and are born from the bodies of oxen
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We mock them for this stuff, but it's not like we know where eels come from either
I, for one, welcome any future historians to openly mock the ridiculous ideas that I currently hold. If I can make someone 1000 years in the future laugh, I'll have done my job :big-cool:
Bees are the smallest of birds. They are born from the bodies of oxen, or from the decaying flesh of slaughtered calves; worms form in the flesh and then turn into bees. Bees live in community, choose the most noble among them as king, have wars, and make honey. Their laws are based on custom, but the king does not enforce the law; rather the lawbreakers punish themselves by stinging themselves to death. Bees are afraid of smoke and are excited by noise. Each has its own duty: guarding the food supply, watching for rain, collecting dew to make honey, and making wax from flowers. Drones (fucus) are larger bees that eat what is provided by others. Cortri are large bees that some say are the kings.
So true, bestie
The movable frames of modern hives are considered to have been developed from the traditional basket top bar (movable comb) hives of Greece, which allowed the beekeeper to avoid killing the bees. The oldest evidence of their use dates to 1669, although it is probable their use is more than 3,000 years old.
Two things would concern me about medieval beekeeping. One, those wicker masks they wear seem like they would suck all around compared to modern mesh. Two, I read on the web somewhere that bees back then were generally more aggressive than today's eugenics bees, which have been selected by generations of beekeepers to be as docile as possible.
But still, you would probably become some sort of merchant queen flooding the world with honey.
Based on who I'm going to end up in a commune with, I'm going to wind up doing dishes. I do not like this, but apparently I'm not as averse to it as everyone else. Also I've done it as a job and can be pretty quick.
We do our own dishes now, we'll do our own dishes then. And it's always the ones who don't who ask that fucking question
Make sure to use lanolin and vegetable based hand creams that you made yourself to counter the effects of harsh medieval soaps,
Well, I accidentally grew several lifetimes' worth of Scotch Bonnets last summer, so...
They're potent enough that I am legitimately worried that I will be charged with a crime if I try to put them in the mail.
That just means they have a 2nd use
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hey, they'll taste great with the lifetime supply of habanero peppers that i grew!
several outdoor cats :yes-honey-left: tis' a lean season since the lord lost the grain on campaign against the french
I'm an itinerant bard with nothing to contribute other than a good song that makes light of our liege.
Skilled story tellers were valued in a time before netflix. In Ireland where the term Bard comes from especially. But lots of cultures had honest to god professional story tellers and orators.
Whole lot of berries I picked; hope they aren't poisonous because i'm :blob-no-thoughts:
suddenly the peasants start to act like they're living in suburban america
I'll be so desperate to contribute that I'll go on a panicked hunt and then immediately throw in like a whole live rabbit
well the crop i'm most successful at growing is cannabis, so it sounds like we're making perpetual jungle juice between that and the ergot grain and the cough syrup and the amphetamines and the shrooms people are already contributing
