SC - Distress in Trimaris

[Mary Morman]

okey, dokey, wolfmom, you've got it right.  cook your feast as usual and
have on the side a bunch of bagged happy meals for anyone who doesn't want
real food.

yes, i'm absolutely appalled.  this is the kind of thing that has driven
me from participation in the sca.

only alternate suggestion - move to carolingia.

elaina

On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 WOLFMOMSCA at aol.com wrote:

> Greetings and salutations unto this most notable assemblage.
> 
> Over the years, I have been alternately (and sometimes simultaneously) 
> bemused and appalled by missives found in my Kingdom newsletters.  I think 
> I'm still in shock over this one, and have decided to share this latest 
> slap-in-the-face with y'all.  It's a dilly.
> 
> >From the Crown Princess of Trimaris, Anastasiya Zadorovc, OL:
> 
> "While I am on the subject of food, let me address feast in general.  More 
> than anything, his Highness and I want our populace to be able to eat the 
> food that their populace has paid for.  So when we step up, we request that 
> all Feastcrats endeavor to stay away from all period feasts.  We do not mind 
> if some removes are of a period nature, however, we wish other removes of a 
> more easily digested by the majority-of-the-populace nature!  We understand 
> the reason that totally period feasts are cooked, but in some cases our 
> populace is paying the price for historical accuracy: and their 
> twentieth-century palates (and sometimes tummies) are unable to appreciate 
> the research and effort that went into cooking that particular time period."
> 
> When I read this, I had to stop and go back and read it again.  In fact, I 
> have read this particular passage at least twenty times in the past 24 hours. 
>  I'm wondering if my reaction to this passage is going to dissipate, given 
> enough time to forget about it.  Am I wrong?  Is this just a moment of 
> unthinking lunacy, or are we here in Trimaris, who find cooking period feasts 
> to be one of our most joyous and delightful pastimes, just going to have to 
> suck it up and serve Happy Meals to high table?  I'm just dismayed at this 
> point to have the future Queen of Trimaris (traditionally, the patroness and 
> fosterer of the arts & sciences),who is herself a member of the Order of the 
> Laurel, plainly and most distressingly discourage the practitioners of our 
> particular art and science for the duration.  It's going to be a jungle of a 
> reign; if I start growling now, I'll never last.
> 
> Forgive my snarling.  Like all else which has come before, this too shall 
> pass.  Thanks for listenting.
> 
> Walk in peace,
> Wolfmother
> aka Baroness Dianna Wyndalan of Kidwelly
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