Some thoughts on Food...

[wiccaqueen]

After rewatching the 6th episode of Merlin yesterday I couldn't help but notice the remarks about food. Some of them made me wonder, such as 'quicker than you can say rotten tomatoes' or when Merlin said that the people were throwing potatoes instead of rotten food.
 

If we believe that Merlin really is set in a fantasy land somewhere in time, that wouldn't be a problem of course. But if we believe that it is set somewhere in Britain, as the original legend of course suggests, the question arises if this is an oversight from the Merlin producers. We all know that tomatoes and potatoes only came to Britain sometime in the 1600s....and as the Merlin producers said, the series can be set somewhere from the 6th up to the 14th century, but certainly not later.

So what do you guys think? It is just an oversight or is Merlin really set in some complete fantasy land/ time?

 

Comments

[wiccaqueen.livejournal.com]

I helped my partner make his first suit of mail and it cost under $30 but took both of us six weeks and a ton of blisters
Wow that's really cheap! But I know what you mean about blisters ;-) When I helped my friend I had the same, but all in all it cost him something like $100! I guess it just more expensive in Germany.

but I’m still impressed the actors wear it so well
Dito! Especially Bradley does an amazing job everytime if you ask me ;-)

you wouldn’t throw anything you should be eating and it would be unusual to allow food a chance to go off
That's what I thought at the beginning too. Food I guess was too precious to let it rot...I mean I still hear my grandma saying that they never threw anything away when she was a child, because food was considered too valuable.
And like you said, if an anthropologist says such things, I tend to believe it's true!

Thanks again for the infos :-)
I really didn't think my wee post would get so much attention, but I'm glad to be able to actually start a discussion.

Cheers,
Tanya