ANST - Re: Cloved Fruit -- what infamous tradition?

[Decker, Terry D.]

It's a kissing game.

Take a lemon.  Prick it with a fork, running lines of holes lengthwise
down the lemon.  Make the lines about 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch apart.  Put
a clove in each of the holes.

Present the lemon to a person of the opposite sex you wish to kiss.  If
they are agreeable to the  game, take a clove to sweeten your breath.
Give them the lemon.  Kiss them.  Then they get to go find some one to
kiss.

Courteously done, it can be a pleasurable dalliance.  Predatorily done,
it can be a savage little piece of sadism.

To kiss and tell (a little), my wife told me that some of my
acquaintances at this game gave her their comments about my abilities in
dalliance before we got married.  So one needs to be on ones best
behavior when one plays the game.

Bear  

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>From: 	Cait Macanliss[SMTP:catmac at flash.net]
>At 12:07 PM 1/26/98 EST, Melody wrote:
>>Ok, I admit it, as a relative newbie to the SCA, I'm confused and curious.
>>What is/was this horrible, offensive, rude, and all-around unaceptable
>>tradition involving cloved fruit?
>
>Yay! someone else who doesn't know what they're talking about....
>Someone please tell?
>
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