cheese_greater@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca · edit-28 days agoWhat modern luxury do you enjoy that even Kings never knew?message-squaremessage-square34linkfedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down11
arrow-up113arrow-down1message-squareWhat modern luxury do you enjoy that even Kings never knew?cheese_greater@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca · edit-28 days agomessage-square34linkfedilink
minus-squaresem@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·8 days agoAluminum foil. It was so expensive that Napoleon had his imperial staff made out of it
minus-squaredmention7@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up9·8 days ago imperial staff I read “staff” as in his advisors and servants and stuff, and was very confused for a minute! Just imagining his guards wrapped in aluminum foil instead of actual armor because it was more of a flex…
minus-squarecheese_greater@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-27 days agoArmour in a kitchen roll
Aluminum foil.
It was so expensive that Napoleon had his imperial staff made out of it
I read “staff” as in his advisors and servants and stuff, and was very confused for a minute!
Just imagining his guards wrapped in aluminum foil instead of actual armor because it was more of a flex…
Armour in a kitchen roll