SC - "Chocolate in a Period Form"

[Laura C. Minnick]

Just as bad down south!

Anne-Marie Rousseau wrote:
> 
> and it occurs to me that the use of chocolate is not really any more
> agregious (my word for the week :)) than, say, Stan Rogers sea chanties at
> bardic circles, folks walking around with flashlights, the ubiquitous
> knight who wanders aobut in jeans, baseball cap, engineer boots with spurs
> and an SCA Tshirt, 

Th Duke who tops this outfit with white belt and chain,

baby strollers at events, mirrored sunglasses, dome
> tents and directors chairs, cigarette smoking on the eric, 

(which is against Kingdom Law last I knew but rarely enforced)

> pop cans out in
> the open, 

I have a photo of Rorik and Berengaria's coronation, closeup of the
crowning, and a guard standing not six feet away, spear in one hand,
DIET COKE in the other,

folks talking about the latest version of various Microsoft
> products (we have a real problem with this one in this barony! :)), or
> better yet, takling about who's cooler, Obi Wan or Liam Neesons character...

 
> The SCA is a unique and fun place. No where in corpora does it say ANYTHING
> being documentably medieval, except as one must "make an attempt at
> pre-17th century dress". The fact that I choose to persue period stuff is
> my own choice. I have no right to try and foist that off on anyone else, no
> matter how much I want to :). Of course, in theory, that means no one has
> the right to foist THEIR standards off on me, either!
 
bingbingbing!

My resources are stretched really thin right now, to say the least, so I
am VERY picky which events I go to. And I am alot more likely to go to
an event where there are more folks getting into the spirit of things
medieval. I am less likely to go to an event where I am likely to see
alot of sneakers worn with the 'skirt-style' kilts (I know there's a
name for but I don't know it), guys standing around with a Miller in
their hand, black label showing, or the tent next to mine playing Enya
(music to open a vein by...:-) day and night...

But I will go to an event and insist the girls put up their hair
properly, wear decent clothing, and make period recipes for the potluck.
The more _I_ do, the less the rest will matter...

'Lainie of the Many Hats
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