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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Can you explain how potatoes led to hotdigs?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (8 children)

At one point when people on Twitter were arguing about the historical accuracy of LGBT+ groups in a DnD setting, I made the argument that anyone who includes potatoes in their setting doesn't care about historical accuracy anyway. This led to a discussion about what would be missing from a medieval setting and the conclusion that a "historically accurate" DnD setting would have gay people, but not potatoes. This became a running joke.

Fast forward a few months, and during a fair there's a vendor selling "sausages in a bun, topped with mustard sauce or sauerkraut." The players caught on to them being hotdogs, and it sparked another discussion about what foods were available in a "historically accurate" setting.

(Which, all those ingredients would have been available to the setting, even of they weren't eaten in that configuration.)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Sausage (at least forcemeat in casing) dates to Mesopotamia, 3000BCE.

I don't think the innovative leap to put that sausage in between bread is a world-breaking defiling of historical accuracy, personally.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Humanity has been putting sausages between buns since the beginning of time.

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