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[challenge entry] Victorian Sexual Position of the Week.

Bread was bigger back then.

From the Fake Infographics challenge. See all 89 entries (closed)

(, Fri 6 Jun 2014, 10:27, archived)
# "In Victorian times Marmite on Toast would take 16 Jars and 3 servants to prepare
at the approximate cost of 5 shillings. As a result only wealthy landowners and the gentry were able to afford this luxorious treat."

The shrinking of sliced bread was the first step towards making luxuries available to the masses, this democritisation of high-end foodstuffs is where we get the phrase "the best thing since sliced bread".



(, Fri 6 Jun 2014, 11:15, archived)
# I see you've read "Victorian Curiosities and Other Things of Such the Like" too?
it sure is a book.
(, Fri 6 Jun 2014, 11:47, archived)