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.)
At one point when people on Twitter were arguing about the historical accuracy of LGBT+ groups in a DnD setting
Why wasn’t your first response to gesture broadly towards ancient Greece? Homosexual relationships were fairly normal and marriage was mainly for having children.
In a strictly medieval Europe setting there’s documented examples of homosexual relationships, but they weren’t normal due to suppression by the catholic church
Yes, but we are in a world of magic, who says yeast has to work the way it does here. Can we just assume queer people have bread to make hot dogs in this world?
Can you explain how potatoes led to hotdigs?
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.)
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.
Humanity has been putting sausages between buns since the beginning of time.
OwO
Don’t forget that pizza was a thing before tomatoes were introduced to Italy. They just used a different fruit for the sauce
If I were a player, I would have asked if it’s a sandwich. Just to watch the world burn.
Why wasn’t your first response to gesture broadly towards ancient Greece? Homosexual relationships were fairly normal and marriage was mainly for having children.
In a strictly medieval Europe setting there’s documented examples of homosexual relationships, but they weren’t normal due to suppression by the catholic church
And on that argument: being queer is normal. Queer happens. Bigotry is what’s specific to a culture.
Yes, but we are in a world of magic, who says yeast has to work the way it does here. Can we just assume queer people have bread to make hot dogs in this world?