Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A medieval painting depicting a woman eating bread and honey - Duncan1890/Getty Images There's nothing quite as American as fast ...

While fast food is defined today by fries and neon signs, its Medieval ancestors offered a completely different experience ...

There's nothing quite as American as fast food ... or is there? As it turns out, fast food was already popular way back in Medieval Europe. Cookshops, as they were called, were often positioned on a ...