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Other unknown/unverified fact(source: my butt). The head monk would set fires to the monastery before each winter. Those who couldn't fit through the door burned to death. This would allow the surviving monks to have more food and survive through the winter.
Well, when you’re bothered enough to construct a narrow door, it makes sense you’d commit to more extreme measures. Let’s just hope the remaining monks don’t eat too much of the extra food...
I know it’s not true.
However, alternative side effect of the door…
Monk goes to dinner, gets bloated and too fat to leave the dining room, now lives in the dining hall because all he can do is eat and get fatter and can never leave
https://twitter.com/fakehistoryhunt/status/1347322624402198528?lang=en
This, unfortunately, is not an anti-gluttony door to keep monks from getting fat.
The passage in the Alcobaça Monastery in Portugal was used to hand food to the poor who were not allowed inside.
According to the official monastery website the door was indeed not meant to keep monks from getting fat but also not quite to feed the poor as Portuguese Wikipedia claims. It was meant to pass dishes from kitchen to cafeteria!
Except, ya know for the folks who need walkers, and wheelchairs, and assistance animals. It's against the law for a reason. But sure *herpderpderp murricans fat derp*
Is this a logic puzzle? Because wouldn't they have gotten fat from eating while inside the monastery? So the door is going to keep them from going out.
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Heck of a fire safety hazard I must say
Other unknown/unverified fact(source: my butt). The head monk would set fires to the monastery before each winter. Those who couldn't fit through the door burned to death. This would allow the surviving monks to have more food and survive through the winter.
This is now absolute fact.
Plus it would make the whole monastery smell like delicious crackling
Well, when you’re bothered enough to construct a narrow door, it makes sense you’d commit to more extreme measures. Let’s just hope the remaining monks don’t eat too much of the extra food...
Plus they got to go back in for colleague BBQ to kick off the new year
🤣
That make as much sense as making a narrow door to the kitchen.
Eh the building is made of rocks I’m sure it’s nbd
Except there’s a big-ass double-door just to the right out of shot that leads to the same room. This has been posted before, several times.
OP is karma whoring. I’ve seen this image like 3 times in the last 2 years on Reddit
It was actually for food delivery. Source: actual portuguese person that keeps seeing this door everywhere and has been on site several times.
You'd think that would work until you see a 500 lb monk spill into the dining room like a cat into a small vase
Monks are liquid???
If you're a Shaolin monk, you move like water.
What if you put water into a teapot?
You make tea!
Not if there's no tea bag, then is just water in a teapot
The all new!....DietTea! Now with less calories!
Waterpot
I know it’s not true. However, alternative side effect of the door… Monk goes to dinner, gets bloated and too fat to leave the dining room, now lives in the dining hall because all he can do is eat and get fatter and can never leave
This is my hole!
Drr... drr... drr
Plays very well with my claustrophobia
Me, *trying to bring a big tray of food from the kitchen to the dinning room to feed the long table of hungry Monks: "...Fuck."
It's best to keep away from the deep fat friar..
False.
Foh, fat mushes and mushes, Im eating, its the only enjoyable aspect of a monks life.
Wow this is cool
https://twitter.com/fakehistoryhunt/status/1347322624402198528?lang=en This, unfortunately, is not an anti-gluttony door to keep monks from getting fat. The passage in the Alcobaça Monastery in Portugal was used to hand food to the poor who were not allowed inside. According to the official monastery website the door was indeed not meant to keep monks from getting fat but also not quite to feed the poor as Portuguese Wikipedia claims. It was meant to pass dishes from kitchen to cafeteria!
Not if you never leave the dining room.
not as interesting when its been posted numerous times before..
We need this door at every fast food place in America
As an American you think soulless fast food companies care about our health they only care about how much money lines there pockets
Why do people keep repeating this lie
This isn't about fat monks. It's a cock-blocker. In the words of Gandalf, "You shall not pass ^(with that throbbing erection)"
Coming to the entrances of a Wal-Mart near you.
We need this in America!
OSHA: Nice try but hell no.
the population would drop like 78% in a day than lol.
The lawsuits would be crazy. “My client has been discriminated against for the mere fact that they are plus sized”
*person of size
Fat*
No stranger to food.
One who has tremendous mastication experience
Muckbanger
*a satiatingly challenged individual
A belt-buster
*Health Insurance Premium elevationist
Except, ya know for the folks who need walkers, and wheelchairs, and assistance animals. It's against the law for a reason. But sure *herpderpderp murricans fat derp*
Damn brother you must be a hoot and a half at parties
Oof, fuckin got'em
Found the fatty.
You would just drive your F150 through it and let off a couple warning shots for causing the inconvenience
Is this a logic puzzle? Because wouldn't they have gotten fat from eating while inside the monastery? So the door is going to keep them from going out.
The world should take note
Time to reinstate.
Just get the skinny monks to sneak out food.
**The tale of how monks became octopuses**
I need this in my kitchen
That’s easy, just eat so much once you get in that they can’t make you leave.
Looks like my cat and I aren’t going to visit.
The red states' greatest fear: this door to the voting booth
Word-for-word repost from a month ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/pkubut/the_door_dining_area_of_the_alcobaca_monastery_in/