Today no one thinks twice about using a fork to eat a meal but that wasn't always true. In the Middle Ages European Christians considered eating with a fork to be sinful, according to some clergymen of the time God had already supplied ten natural forks in the form of fingers so using a fork was offending to the Lord and his divine gifts including the food itself. Before forks became common eating utensils in the 17th century they were used mainly for cooking and only rarely seen at a dinner table. Now combine the thought of eating with your hands with not having regular baths or clean clothes to get a clear picture of those times.
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