[Ansteorra] Feast Etiquette

[Bob Dewart]

Yeh!! What, HE said!!

Gilli
Shoot more arrows.  You're bound to hit something.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian & Pam Martin" <twinoak at cox-internet.com>
To: "'Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.'" <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 4:26 PM
Subject: RE: [Ansteorra] Feast Etiquette


>
> 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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