SC - Ostrich, and cruelty to geese

[jeffrey stewart heilveil]

A bit against her comment:
Well if nothing else, Kosher kills are highly period, and they were "kind"
to the animal.  If nothing else death was quick.

On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Jessica Tiffin wrote:
> 
> Another, totally unrelated query.  A non-SCA friend today came up with the
> comment that she was put off the whole medieval thing by the really cruel
> way they killed their animals for cooking.  She quoted a extract she'd seen
> in the programme for a Shakespeare production,  which purported to be from a
> medieval source she couldn't remember, and described cooking a goose by
> plunging it alive into boiling water and killing it slowly.  I've never come
> across anything like this in any medival sources with which I am familiar -
> it sounds horribly like one of those "medieval people threw their food
> around" sort of urban legends.  Can anyone identify this purported quote? 

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