Did People Really Put Live Birds in a Pie?

During banquets starting from the Middle Ages, many royals and upper-class individuals used animated pies as entertainment. In these animated pies were living rabbits, frogs, turtles, birds, and other small animals that would escape the pie’s encasing to the guests’ amusement.  In a well-recognized English nursery rhyme entitled Sing a Song of Sixpence, the song […]

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