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[eru]

It depends a lot on the basket you are choosing.

Picking the 'BigMac index' might be fun, ie you try to price a Big Mac. (Since the Big Mac doesn't contain any tomatoes, you could probably have made a reasonable Big Mac clone in the Middle Ages.)

It gets ridiculous, if you go by the price of eg the amount of computation a human can do in a year. Or 'ice cubes in the height of summer'.

[ChuckMcM → eru]

I could certainly see that. Now I'm wondering what someone would have bought with these pennies when they were actually coin of the realm.

Edit: per an up level comment, 15 chickens or half a knife? Hmm, chickens are easy the knife isn't. (wide variability in knife pricing). Given that the 'collectible' value has increased beyond the monetary value.

[kasey_junk → eru]

The sesame seeds in the bun would be a trade good. And there are tomatoes in the special sauce.

[eru → kasey_junk]

> The sesame seeds in the bun would be a trade good.

Yes, but they were available in the Middle Ages.

> And there are tomatoes in the special sauce.

OK, I didn't know that. They didn't have tomatoes in the European Middle Ages before contact with the New World was established.

But you can probably come reasonably close enough to a Big Mac knockoff with stuff they had available in the Middle Ages.

[kasey_junk → eru]

Sure. It’s just going to be expensive.