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, 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
If I were a player, I would have asked if it’s a sandwich. Just to watch the world burn.