Regency or Rubbish?
Clip: Season 3 | 1m 52s | Video has closed captioning.
We asked the cast to guess which Regency era facts were true and which were rubbish. Find out how they fared!
Aired: 04/07/23
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- Today, I'm gonna be reading things and guessing if they're true or not.
(classical music) - Pigs' tongues were a delicacy.
- Yeah, I feel like they'd do something weird like that in the Regency era, 100%.
- Yeah, I'm gonna say, yeah.
It sounds gross and sounds like something they would- (bell dings) Yep, it's a yes.
- A common finger food at dances was chicken stuffed with pigs' tongue.
- Yummy.
Absolutely, yummy.
- I'm not a vegan, but that makes me want to go vegan.
- Women could show their ankles.
- Well, not if Mrs. Griffiths was around.
- Yes, yes, that's very true, they could.
(bell dings) - Yes.
Although the ankles would've been stocking clad.
I'm saying that ain't showing ankle.
- People reused their tea leaves.
- Probably, tea was quite expensive.
I'm gonna go yes to that.
(bell dings) - Yes, no, they did.
Okay.
- Its expense meant a homeowner used the leaves first then the housekeeper collected and dried them for a second or even third use.
Quite right.
- That's how it should be.
- Men in the British Army were drafted.
- No, I don't believe they were drafted.
- I'm gonna say yes, they were drafted.
(buzzer sounds off) Rubbish.
Great.
Should not have gone so confidently in there.
- Adult parlor games included pick up sticks.
- Yeah, well, you just throw sticks on the floor and pick them up.
- I'm gonna say true because they're a bit zany.
(bell dings) - Yes, they had a great name for it, Spillkins.
Why has no one copyrighted that and given that for Christmas?
- Single men and women used first names with each other.
- I would say no.
I'd say that's false.
- Not the case.
(bell dings) - Rubbish.
- Rubbish.
- Parmesan cheese ice cream was a thing.
I mean, if pigs' tongues are a thing, then Parmesan ice cream is definitely gonna be a thing.
- Not Regency.
(buzzer sounds off) - Yes, Regency.
- No.
- And so was a rye bread flavor.
- Disgusting.
- That's so trendy.
- God, they really didn't know how to have fun back then, did they?
(classical music ends)
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