SC - Decline in members signing up for feast.... Opinions?

[Rebecca E Tants]

>Just wanted to get an idea of what is happening elsewhere.  In Bryn
>Gwlad, we have noticed about 50% of the people coming into an event
>signing up for feast (at least this last feast we had).  And we are
>noticing a trend for people not to eat feast. Is this happening
>elsewhere?  We are about to put out a 'feast' survey to see if we can
>get any answers to this.  I will post the results here. Just wanted to
>know if any of you have seen this happening.  And if so, what reasons
>have people given.  Just curious.

I've noticed this as well, although most feasts still sell out.  Heck, 
even I miss half the feasts at events I go to because I tend to spend 
time with my friends who are on a variety of weird diets or have a 
variety of allergies/sensitivities/pickiness and don't feel they'll get 
enough food from a feast.

And of course, there is always the excessively long organizational 
memory that the sca can have.  (You know - "I had undercooked chicken at 
a feast in that barony 8 years ago cooked by someone who has long since 
left the sca, but I'm still not going to eat there" type of stuff.)

And I'd like to point out that I started cooking feasts because my 
memory of my first few feasts were one small loaf of bread, a bowl of 
mushy honey-drowned carrots and a single small chicken to feed 8 people!  
Who wants to pay to not get enough to eat?  (Now, my response to that 
was to start to cook and do it right - a lot of people just decided it 
wasn't worth the money and stopped eating feasts because of that...)

Anyway, to me, as long as the feast sells out it's ok if not everyone 
wants to eat it.  I want to feed everyone who's interested, not everyone 
who's there.

Caitlen Ruadh
Barony of Delftwood
AEthelmearc
(Mundanely Syracuse NY)

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