SC - More Grist for the Mill

[RichSCA at aol.com]

Interesting reason not to deviate from your posted listing.  I guess you 
could make an announcement just before the dish is brought out that you made 
a change.  

And speaking of Meridies and Announcing foods.  I had become very used to the 
Hall Stewart announcing the dishes as they were brought out.  And in flourish 
- - mentioning a few ingredients.  As I have travelled I have found that other 
places do not do this.  I asked in one Kingdom about this and was told that 
"no one would shut up for this to be accomplished".   hmmmmmmm ......  I 
kinda like the announcements.

Rayne
Meridies
 

In a message dated 3/12/00 9:44:02 PM Central Standard Time, 
mermayde at juno.com writes:

<< I wrote to a gentleman in our group, Master Cathal MacEdan, to ask him
 about the law regarding posting of feast ingredients.  Cathal has been
 Kingdom Seneschal, Society Steward, and was on the committee to name
 dirt.  We not-so-jokingly refer to him as the SCA Rules Lawyer.  He has
 also mundanely worked as an insurance adjuster.  As you can see from his
 reply below, I was mistaken about this being in our law.  His idea was
 that it may have come down from a former Kingdom Seneschal who had many
 food allergies.  
    Our correspondance:
 
 Dear Cathal,
 >  I don't know where my copy of Kingdom Law is, but I know you have
 yours close to hand ;) I am under the impression that there is a
 provision in MKL about posting feast ingredients in their entirety in the
 hall.  Could you find this passage for me?
 >  Thank you,
 >  Christianna
 
    If such a provision exists in MKL, then it must be written in 
 lemon juice and readable only by candlelight.  I've reviewed both 
 the March 1998 hard copy edition as well as the on-line version 
 updated though 1/2000, and there is nothing to that effect.
 
 Cathal.
 
    However, in talking about this to him later on, he put forward the
 opinion that if such a thing were to be legislated, it would put the
 group at an untenable risk as far as the insurance was concerned.  If you
 posted such a list, and then deviated from it for whatever reason, and
 that deviation resulted in someone eating something they considered safe
 (based on your published list) and having a reaction to the ingredient
 that got added at the last minute, you are now liable for a lawsuit.   >>  
(rest snipped)