SC - How do you know a dish was well liked or hated?

[RichSCA at aol.com]

I agree with all of your missive, but this one part (that I copied below) 
really strikes home.  I, honestly, do NOT attend an event with the feast in 
mind.  I go for the activities or companions... BUT, having said that, if the 
feast is bad or a disappointment (for whatever reason) it is what is 
remembered about the whole event.  Strange, uh??  If there is too much time 
between courses, the dishes too cold (when they shouldn't be), if dishes 
taste "funny", or the entertainment is annoying, whatever.  It tends to be 
summed up as "the feast sucked".  When I hear something like that - I try to 
get a little more elaboration on the whole thing.  Sometimes whatever 
produced the comment had nothing to do with the food at all or was definitely 
a "personal interpretation." As in -- "the feast was terrible -- there were 
nuts [or in one case, citrus) in everything."  Ah, come on... Was there 
"really" nuts in every SINGLE dish?

Rayne

In a message dated 4/6/00 12:19:21 PM Central Daylight Time, Aldyth at aol.com 
writes:

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 Neither.  I have an interesting "view" on feasts.  In my not so humble 
 opinion  :-))  I think that the feast is the most important part of the 
 event.  Unless you have a vested interest in the days activities, you tend 
to 
 remember what you had to eat.  You don't want to be "remembered" as the 
 (insert feast person word here) who was responsible for something like 
 underdone chicken or insufficient portions.
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