SC - table manners

[S.Albert]

someone wrote awhile back:
>
> another thing i have read of that my hub and i do is share one place
> setting, which was also done in period, and at one time i was sitting at
> high table in atlantia, and wasnt really planning to be on board so all
> i could scrounge was a bowl and a roll of paper towels, and i
> scandalized a number of people because i ate and drank everything from
> my bowl, put my meats and other things on a trencher of bread and used
> my fingers and a knife.
>
> kat replied
>
><hee hee hee>  Every time my husband (undetermined persona as yet) and I (a
>12th-century Irishwoman or Saxon, depending on what garb was clean) attempt
>the perfectly period practice of sharing a "trencher" or plate, we inevitably
>inspire someone or other to go around borrowing feast gear for us till we have
>"enough."  No one seems to understand that sometimes we WANT to eat with our
>fingers and share a plate and bowl...
>
Well, in my proper 10th century welsh way, i eat with a plate, bowl, knife,
spoon and fingers (i'd use trenchers if someone else would make them), with
heavy usage of the fingers. luckily, as baroness, few argue with me, and
some even relax and enjoy their food more. after all -- it's much easier to
play with your food with your fingers!

Morgana

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