>>>> I have not seen it in a primary source. My memory of the account I did
>>>> see was that it was a contract in which A was borrowing B's indentured
>>>> servants, and agreeing not to feed them lobster more than X days a week.
>>> I've heard a similar story for sturgeon, i.e. loggers signing contracts
>>> for eating sturgeon only three days a week. Don't recall seeing a
>>> primary source on this story either...
>> I'm afraid that this exists as a tale in the Uk, too, with both salmon
>> and oysters.
> Here both student and apprentice riots on these issues in the middle
> ages are fairly well documented.

Show us the documentation, then.

I have read some primary sources on student riots in the Middle Ages
and I don't believe you.

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