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Why are the dark dishes at the banquets of medieval British aristocrats so scary?

This heavy-tasting hobby has allowed him to appear frequently in American TV dramas with medieval themes, such as "Da Vinci's Demons", "Porphyry", and "Porgy". He is also in "Ya Family". In "The Borgias", a way of death was arranged for him that suited him well: he was framed and fell into a pond while hunting, and was bitten to death by a monster in the water. This monster is a lamprey, with a mouth like a suction cup and a mouth full of sharp teeth.

It looks like an alien creature. It lives by sucking the flesh and blood of fish or marine mammals. It is called a "water vampire", but in fact it is not. The real cause of death of King Lant I was colorectal cancer, which had nothing to do with lampreys, but the reason why the screenwriter used his imagination is because there was a king in history who died because of lampreys. This king was Henry I of England. (about 1068-1135), he was not attacked by lampreys, but because he liked eating lampreys so much that he suffered from indigestion and was eaten alive. Medieval fishermen caught lampreys and ate them by soaking them in wine, because wine is considered warm and dry, and then grilling them to cook them. It is fragrant and nourishing, so even if it killed a king, it could not stop the British royal family from pursuing lampreys. Charles III (1452-1485) would stay in Gloucester on the Severn River every Christmas to taste the local specialty - lamprey pie. Lamprey was only a small part of the dark cuisine of the Middle Ages in Europe. The menu also includes "chopped sparrow, roasted swan, roasted antelope, stewed pike, cooked conger eel, boiled dolphin..." The range of noble recipes is jaw-dropping.

Many recipes handed down from the Middle Ages are the best evidence: Maino de Maineri, a 14th-century Milanese doctor, wrote a cookbook of healthy preparations. Among them, dolphin meat is recorded. Dolphins are classified as "beast" fish. They are cold and wet, similar to lamprey eels, and are very dangerous, so they need to be seasoned with particularly spicy sauces when cooking