[Ansteorra] cloved fruit

Chris Zakes dontivar at gmail.com
Sun Oct 25 16:04:23 PDT 2009


At 03:15 AM 10/25/2009, you wrote:
>On Oct 23, 2009, at 11:52 AM, paul rieke wrote:
>>I just received an "American Girls" catalog, and the latest one is a
>>70's doll, complete with crinkle gauze top and bell bottoms....
>>frightening thought...
>>I  seem to remember some of those things, though we didn't get here
>>from the East Kingdom until 1981.  Cloved lemons (and watermelons???)
>>
>>Fedelm ni Uidhir
>
>I think cloved fruit died out here a few years after I joined the SCA
>in 1988. I remember a number of revels where the game was suddenly,
>rudely ended, when a participant would treat the cloved fruit as a
>grenade and heave it into the distance.

Having tossed a few cloven fruit into the bushes in my day, I can 
explain why *I* came to dislike the game.

As has already been noted, cloven fruit were sometimes used as a way 
to demand a kiss of someone, regardless of the other person's desires 
in the matter. And while one cloven fruit making the rounds at a 
200-person event isn't all that bad, someone bringing in a basket 
with fifteen or twenty of the things at the beginning of a feast is 
another matter altogether. When that started happening, any time I 
received a cloven fruit, I'd simply dispose of it, rather than pass it on.

         -Tivar Moondragon




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