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Do you know the day. Did you know that in the Middle Ages, we ate a little too well in Metz?

An ordinance of January 9, 1459 putting a brake on the excess of certain expenses, especially relating to the pleasures of the table, indicates that we lived well in the city of Metz, maybe even too well …

This is what the ordinance says: “The inhabitants are forbidden to go to taverns during the week and on rest days, during the hours of the celebration of the main services.

It is forbidden to serve sought-after meats and game in inns, except to wealthy foreigners just passing through.

It is forbidden to have at feasts, weddings or banquets more than three services, namely: a starter, a meat or fish dish, a fruit or other dessert.

It was forbidden for officers of justice, to persons having the rank of nobility, to other persons respectable because of their qualities, to ever go, on any day whatsoever, to banquet too happily. “

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