Labels:text | electronics | screenshot | display OCR: About The Past, By Brian Page 20 AFTER DINNER VOMIT: Eating tends to make you feel full. However, this was no problem to the Ancient Romans who wanted to keep on trying the new kinds of food. They would just take a feather and tickle the back of their throats vomiting up everything they had just eaten, and start eating again? Special rooms were made for the vomiters so they did not stop other people from eating. AND WHILE WE ARE ON THE SUBJECT .. urine was told to improve the complexion. In Charles II's reign, dog YUMMY YUMMY: Eating habits have changed drastically in the last hundred years. Here is a menu for a meal served to Henry VIII and 30 guests: 800 eggs, 90 dishes of butter, 50 loaves of bread, 300 wafers of marzipan, plus 6 apples, 7 pears & 10 oranges per person. The serious part of the meal consisted of roast beef, veal, lamb, capons, plovers, woodcock, partridges, herons, snipe, leverets and lambs tongues. To wash all this down each drank 2 1/2 gallons of beer & wine. Henry had meals like this served every day. Not everything was necessarily eaten by the guests but Henry grew very fat by eating like this. His waistline increased by 16" in 5 years. Ropes & pulleys were used to haul him to his 13 foot-wide bed.
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