SC - Re: Alcohol in food (RANT)

[RichSCA@aol.com]

Cindy/Sincgiefu declared:
> Greetings from Germany!
 
> I have been thinking of you all, as I've been exploring Berlin.  I've found
> shops selling whole lambs, & lamb heads, and bulk spices including whole
> mace blades.  Sugar cones are downright common -- they're even for sale in
> the local grocery store.  (What I haven't found yet is beef steaks, in
> American-style cuts and quantities.)   In all, it's a great place for a
> feast, except that there's no SCA group anywhere nearby. :-{

There used to be an SCA shire in West Berlin. Unfortunately, it disbanded
back in the late 80s if I remember right. I have pasted a message from
my Drach-hist-msg file below.

Stefan
PS: Your description of the wonderful food in Berlin is making me hungry.
And I just ate an hour or two ago.
- -- 
Lord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas           stefan at texas.net
**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at:  http://www.florilegium.org ****

> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 22:43:20 -0500
> From: Paul Mitchell <pmitchel at flash.net>
> To: ansteorra at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject: Re: ANST - group names
> 
> Galen here!
> 
> RAISYA at aol.com wrote:
> > If you're collecting group names for the Knowne World generally:
> > 
> > Perilous Journey - Berlin, Germany named in the days that getting in and out
> > of the city WAS a perilous journey.  It was a shire, I'm not sure what it is
> > these days.
>  
> Actually, Perilous Journey went defunct a few years after I left there.
> 
> The name came actually from one of Duke Merowald's maps of the Known World,
> which showed a shire in the far east of Drachenwald called "Perilous Journey".
> I thought it had to be Berlin, but when I got there, there was no shire in
> Berlin, and Drachenwald had never had a Shire of Perilous Journey.  So I
> founded the shire in Berlin, using the name from the map; it was the
> only SCA branch behind the Iron Curtain.
> 
> - Galen of Bristol