Trenchers are a type of bread, often stale, that was used for serving food on, shaped like a large plate or bowl. It’s often characterized as being a specialty of cuisine in medieval europe, but the existence of trenchers is attested to in much earlier times as well, and as being around the world (really, anywhere where bread was ever made). Often, after the meal, the trencher would be given to the poor as alms, but often it was simply also eaten. Because, let’s be honest, eating a big ol’ hunk of bread that has all the food and sauces from your meal in it does sound pretty appetizing.

In Virgil’s Aeneid, trenchers are even the subject of a prophecy. In Book 3, Aeneas recounts to Dido how he heard a prophecy from Calaneo, chief of the Furies, that, while he and his men would eventually reach Italy, but

Never shall you build your promised city

Until the injury you did us by this slaughter

Has brought you to a hunger so cruel

That you gnaw your very tables.

This prophecy is not fulfilled until Book 7, when the Trojan refugees, after a lean feast, are so hungry that they happily eat up their trenchers as well. Aeneas’ son, Ascanius, makes a joke about how everyone’s so hungry that they’re considering eating their tables, at which point Aeneas realizes that, since trenchers are technically sort of a table, the prophecy has been fulfilled.

I now can tell you, my father Anchises

Revealed these secrets to me for he said:

"When you have sailed, son, to an unknown shore

And, short of food, are driven to eat your tables,

Then, weary though you are, hope you are home

Sadly, as time progressed, people began to make trenchers less and less as people decided to use wooden plates and bowls instead.

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Conquesting bread, I see.

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Yep :party-cat::breadpill:

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:kropotkin-big: Yes

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Waking up to go to work, another 8-5 day (though paid hour long lunch break between 12:00 and 13:00, but still)

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But also :doomer:

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Eat breakfast, go to work, listen to music so I don’t have to hear my extremely annoying co workers, fuck off at lunch, come back, do it again for another 4 hours, go home and sleep. Then wake up, have “fun” go back to bed and do it all over again.

Yeah I have to split my sleep schedule because chronic pain. But at least that allows me to post on Hexbear when the Americans are aware lol

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First in the mass tag :rat-salute:

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:rat-salute:

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22nd

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Challenge failed

I tried I guess :shrug-outta-hecks:

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Think this one might have been a legit user with some reactionary conspiracy brain

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Yea the vibe I got is they were probably someone who was into that shit before radicalizing and just had that floating around as uninterrogated brainworms

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Always check the username. They try too hard to fit in

has pretty much the word communist for a user name

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TrueDialecticalMarxist - Obvious Fed

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:alex-supplements: now a hexbear user?

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Bruh

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I get so tired of the bashing of poor people for having cell phones or buying expensive shoes. Guess what? A lot of my students are super fucking possessive of their cell phones and shoes because they couch surf after school most days. And they get expensive shoes with tax money because they last longer. It’s such a ludicrous standard coming from people who have institutionally ensured that they will never talk to a poor person in their lives

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My phone is what I use for 95% of computing tasks outside of work. The only pc I have and get to use outside of work is a crappy 1st gen i3 laptop, that can barely do anything anymore. And I really can’t afford a new PC, though though finding dumped/thrown away parts and garage sales I might build myself something decent hopefully

So yeah

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There are really mfs out there who are fine with cops following elder scrolls logic, where stealing a piece of bread can escalate to execution

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New Atlanta mayor is gonna make the subway free :CommiePOGGERS:

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