What did King Louis XIV of France eat and How did the Sun King dine?

Zippy Facts ^ | Karen Hill

[SamAdams76]

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

How come he never looked fat in his portraits? The tapeworm?

[Paladin2]

Does this series eventually devolve to your own (promoted, proprietary) diet?

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Ugh, I could never eat that much. Eating a lot knocks me out for days. Drinking though.....heh heh

[lee martell]

I thought The Sun King was what inspired that song by John Lennon on Abby Road. I think it’s on Side Two, just before Golden Slumbers.

[BipolarBob]

In a sincere effort to lose weight I have reluctantly adopted a new diet. I’m going from a cow a day to a hog a day.

[Billthedrill]

Ah, yes, the Sun King. You might think this diet might cause a dental problem, especially considering the hygiene of the time, and his did. What his doctors, the best of the time, did about it you don't want to know, but it resulted in a permanent, cauterized hole all the way up into his Majesty's sinus, and oh, I forgot to mention, there was no such thing as an anesthetic back then. When I'm asked if I'd like to time travel back I usually answer, "Not before novocaine. Nope."

[Paladin2]

Whatta Bout a chicken in every pot?

[Tax-chick]

Maybe the portraitist valued his job or his life.

[lee martell]

People traveled from near and far, just to watch the King eat his dinner. Maybe he liked to be watched by the poor people, and they were ordered to come watch him live it up.

[Vaquero]

[fieldmarshaldj]

*It’s dinner night in ancient cultures at FR ping*

[A strike]

no wonder they were pi$$ed

[Lurker]

For later.

L

[allendale]

As a boy he was terrified and forever affected when a mob nearly overran the palace where he and his family were living. It is said that he firmly believed the throne and privileges were his divine right and had little regard for the common man. More importantly the aristocrats who surrounded him and patronized him learned quickly not to support or publicly sympathize with any thinkers who might have advanced French political culture. When the revolution did come, it was rather severe. France never really recovered from the turmoil.

[fieldmarshaldj]

When I had my wisdom teeth extracted 14 years ago, it resulted in a hole from my mouth into my sinus cavity. Fortunately, after a month, it closed up, but it was a bitch to eat and drink in the interim. I was instructed the same day of the surgery to rinse my mouth with water and salt. I drank it and within a few seconds of swishing, to my shock, it disappeared from my mouth... but I hadn’t swallowed a drop ! A few seconds after that, it all came cascading out my left nostril all over the sink. =8-0>

[Flick Lives]

People traveled from near and far, just to watch the King eat his dinner.

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Thankfully, TV was invented between then and now.

[MuttTheHoople]

It is said that he firmly believed the throne and privileges were his divine right and had little regard for the common man.

Sounds like your typical Democrat.

[RooRoobird20]

I agree, he ate like a glutton but all his portraits don’t indicate him being overweight, obese. Interesting.

[tflabo]

Dressed in that regalia old king Louie would fit right in with a gay pride parade. Nice leggin’s oh pampered one.