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a calorie arms race disguised as hospitality, where forks become weapons of mass consumption.
means A lavish ceremonial feast, usually for many guests and often marking a special occasion or honoring someone.
from From French banquet, a diminutive of banc, 'bench' — literally 'a little bench.' The idea was a small snack eaten while seated on a bench, perhaps between meals; over time the modest nibble swelled into the groaning table we know today. French banc itself comes from a Germanic root, a cousin of English 'bench.' So the word's belly grew far faster than its origins promised.
- roman roots
- Romans vomited mid-meal to keep eating more
- word origin
- From Italian 'banchetto,' meaning little bench
- medieval flex
- Cooked peacocks were re-dressed in their feathers
- diplomatic weapon
- Lavish feasts have started and ended wars
- record scale
- One 2010 banquet fed 30,000 people at once
last supper — jesus's final meal with his 12 apostles before his crucifixion in jerusalem, depicted by da vinci in 1495
belshazzar's feast — legendary babylonian king's banquet where a mysterious hand wrote on the wall, around 539 bce