# Fancy Dinners

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fancy-dinners/787451>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 26, 2017, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fancy-dinners/787451 "2017-05-26T00:08:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fancy-dinners/787451/21 "2017-06-12T14:52:36Z")

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Possibly small portions but bear in mind rich Victorians and Edwardians ate prodigious quantities of food. A few years back the BBC did a series “The Supersizers Go/Eat …” where Giles Coren and Sue Perkins attempted to eat like Edwardians, Victorians, Romans, etc for a week. The first of the programmes was _[Edwardian Supersize Me](https://youtu.be/QKpV8yKFY-k?list=PLBD975732056866C4)_ and the amount of food was extraordinary - the presenters felt awful after only a few days

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