[Ansteorra] Food Vendors, menus & Ingredients

[Patricia Schmidt]

I could say the same because I keep Kosher, but rather than encumber food 
merchants with having to deal with such thing for a realitively few of us, be it 
allergies, personal preferences or religious reasons, that is why I provide my 
own food.  That way, I know I can eat it,  know that I will like it & maybe 
bring enough to share with friends and thereby introduce them to something new.  
But never would I expect a camp food consortium, muchelss a large-quantity food 
vendor to make such accomodations.  If you have ever been involved with quantity 
cooking and mass production, especially form the mundane side of things, you 
will see what I mean. The logistics of it becomes far more trouble than it is 
worth. While it would be nice, it just truly isn't practical. However, 
ingriedient lists could be posted.  It would help in the decisions for eating 
vs. not.  My problem is cross-contamination, so I just don't.

 Jalali of Salamis, who has managed to get folk to try Gefelte fish and ask for 
more...


Message: 11
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 10:53:38 -0600
From: James Crouchet>
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Gulf Wars food merchant Menus

In the future I would really like to see a "Mongolian Grill" style food
vendor at GW.  The huge advantage of this style of food is that you pick
exactly what goes on your plate so if you are vegitarian/vegan, if you have
issues with onions or msg, or if you can't stand broccoli in any form, you
don't put those things on your plate.  I absolutely would visit this vendor
at least twice during the week. Currently I avoid all the food vendors
because I do not know EXACTLY what they put in their food, and my dietary
restrictions are too complex to easily explain to a vendor.

This won't be a solution for the extremely sensitive such as those who stop
breathing if they get a drop of peanut oil, the person who gets hives if
their food is cooked on the same grill with seafood, or the true Celiac for
whom even a particle of soy or wheat would make them ill.  These people's
issues are very real but I don't see an easy solution for them.

This might require thinking outside the box, like going to a commercial
vendor rather than an SCA related food merchant. I know some Mongolian
Grill type operations have mobile catering setups so perhaps we could pitch
it to them as an idea to come vend at GW.  I suspect they would do brisk
business.

Christian Dor?