‘A clear plastic ziploc bag’

Based on internet discussion, you’d think that the entire purpose of time travel would be to show off the contents of your pockets and see how many people faint. I come from a less selfish, actionable time, where everyone’s first priority was to find and kill a young Hitler. This new generation doesn’t want to work anymore, they just want adoration!

Nevertheless, the constant discussion of what you might unveil to the first peasant you see in another time continues. It’s the perfect kind of half-intelligent, half-meaningless conversation that bar hangs and internet threads thrive on. So, of course, Reddit has discussed it more than once, at length.

The following are some of their best ideas on what first to proffer a frightened peasant of the past.