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by questionfor 2053 days ago
Would the knight even have access to “bad” carbs / sugar in significant enough amounts to make them so fat that they’d be unfit for combat? It’s not like they can just get another carton of Pringles to finish off the dinner
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Medieval stereotypes about fat people seem to indicate that men who were fat generally got fat from alcohol consumption.