Today I have been reading up about Rochester Castle, which has a great deal to offer in historical importance, from being one of the first ever stone castles built in England to an annual Dickensian Festival held each June.
I urge you to read more about it on this website or this book.
However, the interesting fact that grabbed my attention was that in 1215 King John managed a successful siege with the help of some crispy bacon........
OK, not quite but he did call for 40 pigs "the kind least good for eating" (if only he had The Bacon Book) and with the fat generated from cooking them the King personally* started a fire which helped bring the siege to an end.
Rumours and speculation that those within the castle walls end the long conflict because they were starving and just wanted a bacon sarnie still persist today (mostly because of idiots like me I guess)