Why is the Prince Regent always eating in almost every scene?
Or rather nibbling because Hugh Laurie knows that he's got to be coherent when he's delivering his lines so he's sort of half eating and half talking. And as the scene changes, he moves on to a different food item with every new conversation.
And why is Baldrick always stuffing the same chicken?
Although I must say, the quality of food from this series is much more preferable to the run-over-by-a-van rat, liquorice slug & mud coffee from Blackadder Goes Forth. :)