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I have also found posting a list decreases the interruptions during cooking.
Less people are apt to walk up to the kitchen to ask about their allergies,
etc.

Meadhbh
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From: Elaine Koogler <ekoogler at chesapeake.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: SC - Complaints at feasts


> I honestly believe that the best way around complaints, etc., from various
sorts
> at a feast is to simply post a listing of the ingredients for the feast in
> several places around the site...troll, outside the kitchen door, etc.  I
try to
> serve feasts that are fairly well-rounded with dishes to suit all sorts,
though
> I obviously cannot second-guess allergies (purpose of ingredients list).
The
> only time I actually cooked around an allergy was when I cooked a
Coronation
> feast for a Queen allergic to nuts.
>
> If you have posted the listing, you have "covered yourself", to be polite!
> Because then, if a person eats something they shouldn't, it is their own
doing.
> You can be symnpathetic, but you are not at fault!
>
> Kiri
>
> Black Jade wrote:
>
> > >The question was raised:  how to do a vegan feast without getting
> > >complaints from the various permutations of vegetarians?
> > >
> > >That way lies madness.  Do your best at whatever you are trying to do.
> > >There will always be complaints.  (We've had people complain about
> > >feasts who weren't even at the events!)  Ignore all complaints except
the
> > >valid ones.  I.E.  if someone waits until 30 minutes before feast to
> > >bring
> > >you a laundry list of "allergies", this is not a valid complaint.  Now
if
> > >the queen said she's violently allergic to mushrooms 3 months before
the
> > >event and you serve beef with mushroom sauce in the first remove and
> > >mushroom quiche in the second, that's a valid complaint.  (And you
> > >need to work on your clerical skills.)
> >
> > I'm in total agreement here.  There is no point in trying to prepare a
> > feast at which EVERYONE is happy.  There will always be someone who will
> > look for something to complain about in a feast (there was too much of
> > this, not enough of that.  They're allergic to something that they
forgot
> > to tell about.)
> > If they failed to give the requirements when they booked, or a useful
time
> > before they came, then it's tough bikkies for them.  On;y listen for a
> > valid complaint, such as nothing suitable for someone who told you about
an
> > allergy in plenty of time.  Otherwise you'll run yourself ragged and
> > recieve just as many complaints as you did to begin with.
> > -Katerine
> >
> >
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