A Village Fair in Merry Olde England

• The peasants have delivered meat, grain, produce to feudal lords

  • Payment in kind, not in currency

• They gather to trade their surplus potatoes, chickens and leather handicrafts.

• I grow potatoes; I want to bring home some chickens

• You raise chickens; you want to bring home some potatoes

• A Monty Python interlude riffing on "po-tay-toes" versus "po-tah-toes"

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