SC - OOP humorous food anecdote and recipe

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In a message dated 1/22/2000 10:44:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, lcm at efn.org 
writes:
Marian said:
<< >   I found the ongoing thread on rec.org.sca where someone is complaining 
about the prevalence of ginger, saffron, cinammon and other spices in most 
sca feasts, rather funny <snip> >>

Lainie responded: 
<< Grr. If they don't want to eat period food, why are they going to
 feasts? Let them eat McDonalds, I say. >>

He wants to eat period food.  It's just that the poor fellow a) doesn't like 
the combination of sweet spices and meat (or much of anything sweet in any 
cuisine) and b) has been subjected to too many feasts where *every single 
dish* had cinnamon, ginger, and saffron in it, so everything tasted the same.
He's also very interested in trying to reconstruct as accurately as possible 
what peasants' or soldiers' meals might have been like, as it suits his 
persona more than a nobleman's feast.  To that end, Cariadoc has given him 
his conjectural oatcakes recipe, and I gave him the Peascoddes recipe from Le 
Menagier, the one where you boil the peas in the pod and mix in either butter 
or lard, and then serve.

Brangwayna Morgan
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