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Can someone explain the title? I get that it's a reference to Churchill's famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech [0], but why "buttery"? Does it have s
by pimlottc 2y ago
Can someone explain the title? I get that it's a reference to Churchill's famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech [0], but why "buttery"? Does it have some particularly significance with regards to Oxford?
0: https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1940-the-finest-hour/we-shall-fight-on-the-beaches/ https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1940-the-fin...
- milanhbs 2y agoHistorically a storeroom for provisions in monasteries, in Oxford colleges it is where students get their food. Edit: To clarify, it is pretty much the cafeteria kitchen.
- nextos 2y agoOxford colleges use quite a lot of antique jargon. Battel is also something related that took me a while to figure out. A battel is an account of items supplied by a buttery, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battel.
- QuercusMax 2y agoAnd they pronounce 'Magdalen' as 'maudlin' because that's briefly how people pronounced it hundreds of years ago.
- KineticLensman 2y ago> To clarify, it is pretty much the cafeteria kitchen Well, the college refectory - canteen
- sahmeepee 2y agoIn some colleges it's the bar, e.g. https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/discover/conferences/dining-at-st-edmund-hall https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/discover/conferences/dining-at-st-e...