SC - Period pretzels- Better late than never...

[Stefan li Rous]

Brenna wrote:
> 
> > I remember reading in the newspaper recently that the health authorities
> > in the United Kingdom were trying (with only limited success) to get the
> > Scots to eat more vegetables. Apparently the Scots eat the least amount
> > of vegetables and fruit of any people in the industrial world. Not
> > surprising thinking of the weather and climate of Scotland. And the
> > government thinks more vegetables and fruit would increase the Scots
> > life expectancies.
> 
> I met two delightful ladies from England while on a cruise in Dec who told me an
> incredible thing.  They said that while their American husbands hunt deer, and
> they prepare the venison for their families to eat, they don't eat it themselves.
> They never aquired a taste for it because in England only the royal family may eat
> deer.  Anyone know if this is true or if they were just pulling my leg?  They
> sounded very sincere about it.
> 
> Brenna

The most effective form of lie is one which is technically true ;  )... .

Certainly it was true under the first Norman kings of England that most
of the forests of England were relegated to being the King's personal
hunting  preserve, so no one outside of royal hunting parties could
legally hunt in, say, for a common example, Sherwood Forest in
Yorkshire. (It is in Yorkshire, isn't it?), without the proper
permission. Ever see those Robin Hood movies where people are charged
with poaching the King's Deer?

Whether or not this policy was ever repealed, or if it just stopped
being enforced, or even if it is still in effect, I don't know. Haven't
British deer been hunted more or less to extinction anyway?

Then, of course, there were, and as far as I know, more recently
observed, laws, or at least traditions about certain fish being the
prerogative of the Crown, so if you caught one you could either deliver
it to the nearest royal household, or throw it back, presumably still
alive. Sturgeon was one such, I believe, but there were others.

I wonder if there's been some confusion between these two
traditions...or maybe they were havin' you on.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com
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