SC - Jelly Bean and other flavours

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Well assuming it was not fate that required Eustace and Harry I to die thus 
leaving England more than happy to have that Angevin Henry II on the throne, 
I always thought it was tiny bones which caused the eater to turn blue and 
choke to death:)  I am of course only getting this from SK Penman's _When 
Christ and His Saints Slept_.

Cathy


>From: Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: SC - Xanth Books
>Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:21:19 -0400
>
>Sue Clemenger wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, _that's_ who I was trying to remember! (gee, I guess I was _kinda
> > close, huh?)
> > --Maire
> >
> > Catherine York wrote:
> > >
> > > Also Stephen's son Eustace died from eating lampreys....
> > >
> > > Cathy
>
>Okay, I seem to see a pattern developing here. The thing is, I can't
>imagine what it is, assuming the lampreys were reasonably fresh and not
>eaten either alive or raw, that would cause death, unless it was a
>physical rupture of some kind. Parasites in fish tend to be eminently
>visible if you know what to look for, and they are easily identifiable
>even in cooked fish, and while unpleasant to even consider eating, if
>the fish is fully cooked they're not especially dangerous.
>
>Are lampreys cartilaginous? I forget... Most cartilaginous fish are hard
>to eat if not fresh (skates a  possible exception) because they tend to
>produce ammonia. Pretty hard not to notice bad shark, skate, or swordfish.
>
>Or, alternately, and perhaps more likely, is there some precedent for
>lampreys being considered medically unsound, regardless of the actual
>cause of death? It seems significant that a fairish percentage of the
>Plantaganet line should go that way.
>
>Adamantius (we can't talk about Every Flavor Beans all the time, can we?)
>--
>Phil & Susan Troy
>
>troy at asan.com
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