SC - Remove "Remove"! Of Course It's "Course"!

[alysk@ix.netcom.com]

At 6:43 PM -0400 6/13/00, CBlackwill at aol.com wrote:

>So why not replace the "Breakfast", "Lunch" and "Feast" monickers at events
>with "First Remove", "Second Remove", etc...?  This way, the populace still
>gets thier flirting and rear-smooching time between "courses", and the
Feast
>Steward still gets to provide a "complete feast".

1)  "Remove" is a Victorian term that people started using in the SCA
because they could not accept the fact that the familiar term "course" is
actually what is used in period.  Same with calling children "underwear,"
er, "smalls," and an automobile a "dragon" instead of "wagon" or "car(t)."

2)  People in the SCA have become used to substituting "Remove" for "Course"
and would be terribly confused.

3)  Not all sites, or all cooks, can handle making three meals per day.

4)  You can just do as things seem to be in West Kingdom, where the courses
are about an hour apart with little or no formal entertainment.  People can
get up and do things if wanted, and otherwise just talk, visit, etc.
However, in other places people are used to a quick meal so that they can
get to court, dancing, and/or bed at a good hour.

                                  ---= Morgan (who doesn't smooch body
parts!)


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