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by milanhbs 594 days ago
Historically a storeroom for provisions in monasteries, in Oxford colleges it is where students get their food. Edit: To clarify, it is pretty much the cafeteria kitchen.
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Oxford colleges use quite a lot of antique jargon. Battel is also something related that took me a while to figure out.

A battel is an account of items supplied by a buttery, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battel.

And they pronounce 'Magdalen' as 'maudlin' because that's briefly how people pronounced it hundreds of years ago.
> To clarify, it is pretty much the cafeteria kitchen

Well, the college refectory - canteen