SC - Deletable PC stuff, only partly to do with food.

[Philip & Susan Troy]

LrdRas at aol.com wrote:

> PC, me? :-0 I am just the opposite. I was taught that this is a free society
> amd as a Jeffersonian Democrat I take that literally.

I suppose if one is to survive being a Democrat these days ;  ), being
Jeffersonian is pretty much the way to go...although he himself was not
a Democrat, for what it's worth.

 The old addage about
> those that would rather be safe than free do not deserve either is my Bible.

Ah, so you've been to NY City in the current administration? I live in
fear of arrest and gosh knows what if my 6-year-old accidentally loses
his grip on the paper napkin that comes with the ice cream cone...

> Horse? Certainly I would serve horse at a feast as a major dish if the feast
> were geared toward a nomadic theme. I would expect that those interested
> enough to attend would neither be shocked  nor offended by an appropriate
> menu.

Horse is also appropriate for an Anglo-Saxon feast. I don't know that
I'd necessarily want horses to be specifically raised for food, but I
wouldn't mind eating one that had broken a leg or something. One of the
problems with so many of the PC crowd is that they have no concept of
hunger, and they feel no social kinship with our period forebears who
had to eat to survive, and weren't as generally picky about it. I
suspect if confronted with cooked horsemeat, I'd be disinclined to ask
questions about its life and death... .
> 
> The Emu's I substituted for Roc in the "Roast of Roc Who Feedeth Her Young
> With Elephants" suggested by Master Adamantius is a perfect example. I have
> never recieved so many vicious comments and negative feedback from people in
> advance of the feast as I did with this one. I chose to go with the emu
> anyhow. The feast was entirely sold out several weeks in advance and folks
> waited in the feast hall until the last remove when I served it. I recieved
> nary a negative comment. Indeed, I recieved nothing but praise for this feast
> in general.

So was the problem with the emu the fact that it was a "weird" food, or
was it an endangered-species thing? I understand they are being raised
on ranches now, and I'd like to point out that there are very few wild
cattle roaming the North American countryside nowadays, and they aren't
considered endangered, either.
> 
>  <<but the general populace would have a conniption fit. >>
> 
> Oh, well. Who really cares what the general populace cares to have
> conniptions about? :-)

The general populace is often rather fickle, unfortunately. I've had
complaints from people about the simplest rabbit or duck dish, and my
response is generally some variant on the theme: "O.K. Eat only the
vegetables, or only those dishes that you want to eat. You'll still be
full. Then go and price a comparable meal in a good restaurant. You're
still getting this meal for a bargain price. Of course, the folks who
aren't troubled by eating the [insert name of non-PC dish here] are
getting an even better bargain, but I can't help that." 
 
>  <<to make "flipper n grits" as my house hold calls it- non
>  mamillian dolphin and polenta- for a feast some time just to shock people.>>
> 
> Since "dolphin" the fish is not a mammal I wouldn't mind. Would I eat dolphin
> the mammal? I don't know. I tend to draw the line at eating intelligent
>  creatures and would probabably have as much of a problem eating dolphin as I
> do with eating the primates such as man and monkeys. :-(

Dolphin-the-fish is also known as mahi-mahi. This is shocking to folks?
I think drawing the line at sentience of one degree or another is a good
one, so while I wouldn't mind eating Dan Quayle, if properly prepared
(at least somebody keeps him clean), I think I wouldn't care to eat
dolphins, whales, primates in general, or parrots, which recent studies
have shown actually DO talk, as in conversing, in some cases.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
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