FW: SC - Horror Story (Warning, angry cook venting)

[Decker, Terry D.]

This occured about 15 years ago but it's one that I've never forgotten. I
was heading up the prep crew for a very large feast and one of our helpers
was the single mother of a two year old. It was his nap time so she put him
on the floor behind where she was working on a blanket to sleep. some time
later he woke up and none of us noticed him so he wandered out of the prep
area and into the ajoining kitchen. The head cook was removin a very large
pan of roast beef and the juices were about an inch deep in the three inch
high pan. The baby walked up to him at just the wrong moment and in order to
not damage either the child or the roasts the cook managed to burn himself
all down the front of his tunic with hot meat juice. A quick thinking
assistant pulled the tunic off, washed the cook down and hollered for the
local chiergion who happened to be a Doctor. While the burns were very
painful the quick action saved the cook from permanent disfiguration, we
learned never to allow unwatched children anywhere near a busy kitchen.
Margarite du Battenhelm
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