[Ansteorra] Feast Etiquette

[Brian & Pam Martin]

Settle down, folks; while the occasional grape or other morsel may have been
launched during a feast here and there, I've never seen the types of huge
Animal House-like images that y'all are conjuring. Every once in a while
someone gets mischievous and launches a grape or two at a friend. That
friend is likely to launch one or two back, and that's about as raucous as
these things usually get. Silly? Infantile? Sure. Generally harmless? Yes.
Apparently last year someone nearly slipped and fell so the stewards have
asked that it not be done this year - fine, that's no big deal but in
general neither have been the "food fights".

In my opinion, if we want to get twitchy about our actions running counter
to the Middle Ages, we should concentrate more on our event sites looking
like parking lots and the other mundanity that now runs rampant at events
and worry less about the odd grape getting thrown during a feast.

Pendaran


-----Original Message-----
From: ansteorra-bounces at ansteorra.org
[mailto:ansteorra-bounces at ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of charles netterville
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 3:34 PM
To: Chandranath; Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Feast Etiquette


Alright, I just had to respond to this one...
    I guess I've been fortunate to never have witnessed such behavior as
this at an event yet. In fact, as I read this missive I found my jaw
scraping the concrete floor. ( It was cold ) I have had the honor to prepare
feasts, consume feasts, and serve feasts. All by the hands of some of the
finest artisans this world has to offer. I have never had opportunity to,
nor the desire to hurl feast into a crowd. By this time of the day I'm
usually much too hungry to even consider letting my food far from my grasp,
and even if not, Call me frugal, but I just don't see the gain.
    I must interject though that if you should have that unquenchable '
hunger ' to shot put a chicken breast into a crowd of hungry and tired
fighters and artisans, I must ask, with a completely straight face mind you,
to please wait until 'Launch ' time. Sorry, couldn't help myself. And by all
means, cafe style siege weapons take up entirely too much space, aren't
period that I can find documentation on and are terribly hard to clean
making for a horrendous smell should you forget to hose off said weapon
after an event.
    I'm so sorry to make light of this. Would someone please tell me that
the post I'm responding to is merely a farce and there aren't really those,
who in a society of anacronists trying to recapture the glory and honor of
chivalry and  romance of the 13th century who would actually prefer to
recapture scenes from old Animal house reruns from the 20th century????????
Just me being me, Elrique

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chandranath" <russ at randomgang.com>
To: <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 2:49 PM
Subject: [Ansteorra] Feast Etiquette


> Gentles,
>
> A (very reasonable) request posted to ansteorra-announce on behalf of 
> the Steppes Twelfth Night autocrats has brought a topic to my mind, 
> and I'm in a twitchy enough mood to want to bring it up amongst the 
> general public, such as a mailing list is ever the general public...
>
> Why in the world does it not go without saying that you shouldn't 
> throw
the
> food at a feast (much less bring objects to HELP do so?)
>
> Arguments against throwing food at a feast:
> 1. It's infantile.
> 2. It's disrespectful to the feast stewards.
> 3. It creates unnecessary work for the cleanup crew.
> 4. It annoys many people who paid to take part in the feast. 5. It 
> strips the feast of all grace and dignity. 6. Did I mention it's 
> infantile?
>
> Arguments for throwing food at a feast:
> ... I can't come up with any.
>
> I had the misfortune once to be seated at the head table at a feast 
> and find myself having to dodge thrown food until I gave up on further 
> eating and went back to see how the feast steward and head server were 
> doing. Both were, in my judgment, incensed at this behavior at a feast 
> into which they had put so much work.  Rightfully so.
>
> I am keen to find out if anyone can explain to me why this behavior 
> should not be squashed by the figures of authority whenever it occurs.  
> (I
suppose
> with an exception for feasts that are advertised in advance as being 
> food fights, for the sake of fairness.)
>
> Yours in service,
> Lord Chandranath _______________________________________________
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