SC - Spices on Nerves of People

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- ---"Peters, Rise J." <PETERSR at spiegel.becltd.com> wrote:
> <<ANYTHING served with a quantity of spicing exceeding
> the normal modern palate is best served with accompanying
> admonitions.>>
> Agreed.  But...
> <<Server: "My lords and ladies, for some palates the 
> cook may have been a little heavy-handed with the 
> ginger in this dish.">>
> Can we come up with an alternative phrasing that makes 
> clear that it wasn't the cook making a mistake, but 
> simply a correctly-prepared dish that some 
> may find surprising?  "Good gentles, this dish, 
> prepared according to a recipe handed down to the 
> cook by his grandmother, includes enough ginger to 
> wake the dead."  Or something of that sort.<g>  

Amended phraseology noted and commended.

(Actually, my example text is a close paraphrase
of something I was once actually told at a feast...)

I further note that my version specified "for some
palates", not that an error had occurred.

> In either case, folk may grouse that they don't 
> like ginger, but there's a difference between knowing 
> that you don't like a particular dish that was 
> fixed correctly, and thinking that the dish was 
> ruined because the cook erred.
 
Perfectly agreed. 

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Pax ... Kihe / Adieu -- Amra / TTFN -- Mike
Kihe Blackeagle / Amr ibn Majid al-Bakri al-Amra /
Mike C. Baker       F.O.B. (Friend Of Blackfox)
My opinions are my own -- no one else would want them!


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