[Ansteorra] A thought about why people leave for feast... oth er than the ...

[Rob rose]

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So then we are saying that if my lady does not elect to buy a feast and I do
buy one we shouldn't be allowed to eat together.  Does this hold true for
their magesties as well?  Or their highnesses?  Where exactly is the line
drawn?  Or is it just us common people who wouldn't be allowed to dine with
our friends who have purchased feast and we have have not.  We play a game.
We play this for our enjoyment.  The people are what make the game great and
unique.  To tell someone that they are not allowed to eat with their friends
simply because they elected not to buy a feast for whatever reason, but
instead brought their own food, well flat out I think it's wrong.  For what
it's worth, in my experience most people who go to an event where there is a
feast do purchase and eat it.  Maybe things are different elsewhere.  Out here
in the west, where the red headed step children of Ansteorra live, we still
think that our people are our greatest asset. Someone drives many hours to get
to an event to be with friends, friends who are family, and then gets told
that because they brough food with them, they aren't allowed to dine with the
others.  I will never ask anyone to not join us at feast simply because they
would rather have dinty moore beef stew over a french feast.  At least that
will never happen at an event that I autocrat.  My friends will be welcome at
my table, whether they bought a feast, or brought a feast.

Ian Macleod
>From: "Keyna"
>Reply-To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org
>To:
>Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] A thought about why people leave for feast... oth er
than the ...
>Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 16:07:31 -0500
>
>Above the board and below the board is actually what took place back in
>those days. If you got an invitation to come to a palace for say a
>coronation, wedding, or installing a baron. That was a very honored and a
>high class event. you wear your very best and frilly outfits and if you
>could pay to sit at the tables with the nobility you were consideder above
>the board.
>If you get invited and you can't pay for the feast you would not even be
>allowed to be near the tables when the feast was taking place. Back then
>just to be able to eat let a lone hols a sizable feast for several is also
>considered for the nobility. The average person was just above the poor
>level or below.
>Keyna
>
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>From: "Rob rose"
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> > so then, what i am getting from this is that if i pay feast, but my lady
>does
> > not, we shouldn't be allowed to eat together? Or at least, she shouldn't
>be
> > allowed to eat with the rest of the people? This is how i am taking it.
> > Please tell me that I am wrong.
> >
> > Ian Macleod
> > >From: "Harris Mark.S-rsve60"
> > >Reply-To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org
> > >To: "'ansteorra at ansteorra.org'"
> > >Subject: RE: [Ansteorra] A thought about why people leave for feast...
>oth er
> > than the ...
> > >Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 12:16:35 -0700
> > >
> > >Lady Susannah Blackthorne said:
> > > > Forgive me, but I don't understand. In MiddleKingdom, when I
> > > > was exiled
> > > > there, we always had Above the board and below the board
> > > > seating at a feast.
> > > > They were shown the same hospitality as those paying feast,
> > > > and we served
> > > > them drinks. I fail to understand where the hospitality went.
> > >
> > >But those "Above board" and "Below board" seatings were not
> > >mixed together, correct? So you couldn't sit with your
> > >friends if some had paid for feast and you hadn't.
> > >
> > >The drinks are a nice touch and something that can be paid
> > >for out of the gate fees rather than the feast fees.
> > >
> > >Why is the Ansteorran tradition of allowing paid and
> > >non-paying feasters to eat together, even though it
> > >is a major inconvenience to the headcook and servers,
> > >less hospitalble?
> > >
> > >Or are you talking about some inhospitality that has little
> > >connection to whether the non-paying feasters can dine in
> > >the same hall as the ones who paid for the feast?
> > >
> > >Stefan li Rous
> > >stefan at texas.net
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