SC - parsley root
Bonne
oftraquair at hotmail.com
Sat Jun 6 17:11:19 PDT 1998
I hate to say this but it sounds just like my mundane job. Sorry to hear
of it happening in the Middle Ages. Pass a token or favor off to one of
the better fighters and let them Challenge the Autocrat to "friendly "
combat for you. Then stand on the sidelines and ... Well , you take it
from there. Keep'em cautious and respectful and your fighters well fed
and aware of the benefits of a friendly, "indebted" feastocrat/cook.
Aggressive and passive and assertive all at once.
Genevia
On Sat, 6 Jun 1998 18:59:26 +1000 The Cheshire Cat <sianan at geocities.com>
writes:
You have made a blow for creative freedom & acknowledgment for all of us
SC cooks!
>>> Master Huen
>Warning.....coolant leak.....reactor temperature rising......
>
>Right, everyone telling their stories of woe has brought back a nasty
>memory.
>>
>I have a Horror story to tell,but I was just a helper.
>
> At a rather ambitious feast at the end of last year, something
>happened
>that actually scared off one poor cook for a whole six months.
>The Autocrat suggested a lunchtime feast. This in itself wasn't a
>problem.
>The location was a terrible once since it was way out back of
>Whoop-Whoop,
>not close to anywhere of any convenience. It was chosen for the
>setting if
>nothing else. He DELEGATED this young girl into feastocratting, and
>then
>put her in a position where she couldn't back out if it. So she
>soldiered
>on, right up to several crisises in her life which effectively made
>attending the feast difficult, let alone Feastocratting it! So a few
>of
>the kinder people helped out. I researched the recipes and helped
>cook
>them.
> We made the Autocrat promise to provide some items that would be
>needed,
>A tent of some kind to keep the food in, a table to prepare the food
>for
>serving and a couple of chairs. One week ahead, when the cooking was
>in
>full swing, She got the flu and so did several others. Those who did
>not
>succumb battled on.
> The day of the even arrived and all arrived to enjoy the event.
>The sun
>was shining and the spirits were high since there was to be fighting
>after
>lunch. The cooks in the carloads of food arrived aonly to find that
>the
>Autocrat didn't bring any table or chair and the tent was only a tiny
>A-frame. The cooks were a little annoyed, but we spread out some rugs
>and
>set about preparing the food for serving.
>Every one was happy until we discovered that the Autocrat did not give
>us
>any room in the feast area and the numbers of people expecting to be
>fed
>was waaaaaay over what he told us. So the feast was slightly
>undercatered.
>To this the Autocrat saw fit to barge into the small area we set aside
>as
>the cooks area and berate us all. Me, I'm not one who likes to be
>screamed
>at, so I stood up and screamed right back at him. If I was a fighter,
>I
>would have laid on with every bit of strength left me. The Feastocrat
>just
>burst into tears.
> The Autocrat, after the Lunch led EVERYONE else off to the fighting
>area,
>leaving to cooks to clear everything off the tables and get them ready
>for
>collection. (He had organised them to be collected by the hire
>company at
>2.00pm.
> In closing court, the cooks got not one bit of credit for what I
>thought
>was a superhuman effort in the face of such idiocy. And we suffered
>though
>snide comments about undercatered feasts for weeks. The Autocrat
>spread
>the word that those who cooked was to blame fo everything, and that
>this
>young girl, who had taken a little too much stress and was on
>councelling
>afterwards (NOONE should every have to go on counselling after they
>run a
>feast) dissapeared never to be heard from again. What a lovely
>Barony we
>have here!!
> Whew...... Sorry about that I was just venting a little. I'll step
>off
>my soapbox start looking around for a rock to crawl under.
>
>-Sianan
>
>******************************************************************************
>Marina Denton
>sianan at geocities.com
>
> How can you let sleeping dogs lie
> if you let the cat out of the bag?
>
> -Yes Prime Minister
>******************************************************************************
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