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In reply to the discussion: Religious opposition to the table fork [View all]thucythucy
(8,048 posts)8. There's a great scene in the film "Becket"
where Becket talks about purchasing a set of forks as "the latest thing" from France. Becket says, "They're to keep your fingers from getting dirty."
Henry: "But then the fork gets dirty."
Becket: "But it's washable."
Henry: "So are your fingers. I don't see the point."
Peter O'Toole as King Henry is amazing.
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Saint Peter Damian sounds like a nasty little prig, doesn't he? On the bright side, he died of a
Squinch
Dec 2012
#2
An earlier version of this BS was debunked four years ago back on DU2
struggle4progress
Dec 2012
#11
Let us follow the first Wikipedia citation (currently footnote 14) back to its source-link:
struggle4progress
Dec 2012
#17
Or, y'know, you yourself might try, through internet sleuthing, to provide a more credible version
struggle4progress
Dec 2012
#25
Peter Damian (b. 1007) could not have been sufficiently shocked, by woman's wedding in 1004, to have
struggle4progress
Dec 2012
#21
OK. What I mean is that when this story first appeared on DU2 four years ago,
struggle4progress
Dec 2012
#31
Lot number: 1487. A collection English medieval knives and English medieval forks, with horn, metal
struggle4progress
Dec 2012
#12
Of course what Coryat noted was not that the fork was unknown to the English...
trotsky
Dec 2012
#27