Tales of Bacon

19th century euphemisms for sex included: Basket-making Horizontal refreshment Jumbling giblets Drawing a cork Playing the blanket hornpipe Taking a turn among the cabbages Riding St. George Rubbing bacons Getting your kettle mended Pocketing the stakes Feeding the dumb glutton

Pig fact of the day, In the 12th century, a English church in Great Dunmow offered a side of bacon to any married man who could swear before the congregation and God that he had not quarreled with his wife for a year & a day. He who could was then said to "bring home the bacon"

My tales? Of Caunterbury.