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# i don't get it
(Canazza is mostly listening to Yes, Mon 18 Aug 2003, 10:19, archived)
# Well, it is meant to be subtle.
But I thought it was fairly straightforward.
(I helped save b3ta! Cassidy : Vissi d'arte, Mon 18 Aug 2003, 10:22, archived)
# subtle and historic
that's new world foods in old world painting (tatties, peppers etc)
(I helped save b3ta! Heather S likes making stuff., Mon 18 Aug 2003, 10:22, archived)
# tatties are old world foods
:S
(Canazza is mostly listening to Yes, Mon 18 Aug 2003, 10:23, archived)
# someone else doesn't think so either
www.b3ta.com/board/1801164

and if you've been watching too much telly like i have, they only had bread for a very long time before tatties and rice.
(I helped save b3ta! Heather S likes making stuff., Mon 18 Aug 2003, 10:25, archived)
# Not as such.
First cultivated in Peru, about 2000 years ago.
First European encounter with the potato was in 1537 in Colombia. Introduced to Spain in 1550s, British Isles in 1590s.

(I helped save b3ta! Cassidy : Vissi d'arte, Mon 18 Aug 2003, 10:33, archived)
# And blue dye
was incredibly expensive, so that blue tunic is out of place too.
(I helped save b3ta! itwontbeeasy, Mon 18 Aug 2003, 10:23, archived)
# unless the painting was done for some very rich person.
That was the only thing I can remember from my art history course.
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Mon 18 Aug 2003, 10:25, archived)
# and if you look really hard...
there is a guy having a wank in one of those windows at the back....of course we all know Wanking was only discovered when Cook discovered the ancient aboriginal Cockbasher Tribes of Australia.
(I helped save b3ta! Bitchpapa, Mon 18 Aug 2003, 10:27, archived)
# A bit too subtle, there.
Although it is a herb garden, so these could be upper-class folks, rather than peasants.
(I helped save b3ta! Cassidy : Vissi d'arte, Mon 18 Aug 2003, 10:28, archived)
# That's it. Well spotted.
Potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, sweet corn (barely visible) - and a turkey.
Medieval food must have been so boring.
(I helped save b3ta! Cassidy : Vissi d'arte, Mon 18 Aug 2003, 10:25, archived)
# McDonalds was even more popular
back then, what with real food being so bland.
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Mon 18 Aug 2003, 10:27, archived)
# from what I've found
they must have had a lot of fun with different herbs for all sorts of medicinal aliments though...
and they ate bread and meat, mmm.. :)
(I helped save b3ta! Heather S likes making stuff., Mon 18 Aug 2003, 10:28, archived)