[Bryn-gwlad] Feast Gear

[John Hidalgo]

Having worked several years at renfairs (where one almost always carries a
drinking vessel on on'e belt) I would highly recommend pewter.  It's
washable, doesn't dent much, certainly doesn't break much and, in a pinch,
you can beat someone about the head and shoulders with it if necessary.
Carson is a good source for a lot of pewterware.  Also look for Sykes
Sutlering. Don't get the tankards on with the glass bottoms, though.  Those
usually have a rubber seal that eventually gets funky.

I hope that helps.

Take care,
John Hidalgo
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----- Original Message -----
From: <tmcd at panix.com>
To: "Barony of Bryn Gwlad" <bryn-gwlad at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Bryn-gwlad] Feast Gear


> On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Sandy Straubhaar <orchzis at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > and I still eat off of wooden plates and bowls.  I drink out of
> > leather drinking jacks made by Morgan the Tanner of Calontir
> > sometime in the eighties. ...  None of these things break, whereas
> > glass and ceramic (that you love) might easily break.
>
> Tradeoffs all around.
>
> I used a wooden mug until the handle broke off.  I tried ceramic but
> stopped before it broke.  I now use silvery goblets.  Their drawback:
> they're now dented and noticably out of round, and I don't know how to
> get them rerounded.  But I can use them still just as easily, when
> they'd been subjected to forces that would break most ceramics.
>
> I used to use a wooden plate.  Then I realized how long I was letting
> my feast gear sit after coming back from an event before washing it,
> and wondered how quickly I would die the next time I ate from it.
> Then thought about my old wooden mug and shuddered.  I then got a
> silvery plate.  I'm not worried now about bacteria lingering,
> dishwasher safe ... worked great until I went to the Steppes Twelfth
> Night at Fair Park, Dallas.  Fair Park was made for summertime fairs,
> so there was no heating in that hall.  It was maybe 55 degrees inside.
> The chicken hit my plate and I could almost see ice crystals forming.
> Between courses, I took it into the men's room to hold it under the
> hot-air hand dryer -- didn't heat very much.  The table candles didn't
> help much either.
>
> But that was just one very unusual occurrence: they've worked fine at
> the other dozen or two feasts I've taken them too.  So, on the whole,
> I prefer metal plates and goblets for durability, washability, and
> safety.
>
> Danielis Lindecolina
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> Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com
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