Notice in the medieval picture the round objects that look like plates, but are actually slices of four day old bread. Text says they were not eaten, but given to the poor. I remember reading in German that it was considered "unhöflich" to eat the bread before the meat arrived. Again, I do not see anything that looks like the salt container. And the bread slices were "trenchers" from which our "good trencherman" meaning big eater comes from