SC - meat days and fast days - MIXED?
grasse@mscd.edu
grasse at mscd.edu
Thu Oct 29 09:22:02 PST 1998
My husband and i are both kinda picky eaters...I although not
vegiterian hardly ever eat meat. My husband is a carnivore (only eats
meat and a french fry or two.) He is also alergic to mushrooms.
However, he and i always do well at feasts...I eat all his veggies and
he gets my meat. I pack extra cheese and a meat pie for him just in
case, but hardly ever hit the meat pie except for lunch.
> LrdRas at aol.com wrote:
>
> > The SCA tradition is to recreate the 'best' of the Middle Ages'.
> > That being a given people who 'insist' on being treated as
peasants should not
> > expect anything less for their anti-organization play. Frankly
put, if you
> > insist on eating as a peasant at feasts then the bottom line is
for you to
> > provide your own peasant fair. The 'best' does not translate into
serving
> > foods suitable for the poor at feasts. In a more practical vein,
the recipes
> > we have to choose from cere created for tee upper middle class at
the very
> > least and for the nobility for all practical purposes.
>
> I agree with this statement. When I eat feast, I am there to eat a
FEAST. I am
> not there to eat peasant fair. I want the best there is to offer.
The idea of
> "keeping up with the joneses" is not a new one. I'll use Queen
Elizabeth as an
> example. She set her own ways, and everyone followed. WHY? because
"I want to be
> like the queen". How many nobles in the middle ages would eat like
peasants given
> the choice? (ok, there were nobility who were not exactly wealthy, I
> understand..) If there are people who insist on being peasants,
fine. I could
> use a few more scullery maids. I have some latrines that can be
cleaned out.
>
> > What this translates into is that if a person insists on being
treated as a
> > peasant then they should line up at the back door and wait for the
leftovers
> > and scraps to be thrown out to them.
> >
>
> Come on now Ras, I have hunting dogs to feed. The poor at the door
can get their
> alms from the church.
>
> >
> > All in all, I agree that 'vegetarians' as we know them in the
current middle
> > ages did not exist during the first middle ages. I also agree
that it is
> > absurd for 2 or 3 individuals (whether they are veggies or
allergic) should
> > reasonably assume that it would be appropriate to ask that a feast
for 100
> > plus people be specifically geared toward their special needs or
wants.
> >
> > Unfortunately, there is an insidious social custom afoot today which
> > erroneously thinks that because one person is offended by
something there is
> > some kind of obligation to cater to that selfish whim. I, like
you, ignore
> > such insensitivity to the needs of the majority who are trying to
experience
> > as closely as possible the way they did things in the MA.
> >
> > Ras
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