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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 8152471, member: 115909&quot;]Glad it&#039;s something someone else is interested in! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s a lot of interesting stuff in there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Notice that the price of Sugar is 1-3 shillings per pound!</p><p>That&#039;s 36 pence! The average wage back then was about 2 pence per day so it would take someone over 2 weeks just to buy a pound of sugar. Back then it was an exhausting, back breaking, process to crush and extract sugar from sugarcane. Today it&#039;s all done by machine power and the spot price of sugar is about $0.40/pound. Although in the US the sugar industry is subsidized so it sells for an artificially high price.</p><p><br /></p><p>That explains why honey and fruits (like apples) were the most popular sweeteners of the time. They were much cheaper.</p><p><br /></p><p>I love that it has interesting little insights into medieval life.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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