SC - Unbathed Vikings!?!?!

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Bear commented:
> You know, reading this, I'm tempted to pack up my dueling pistols and coffee
> pot and head East.  Pistols for two, coffee for one, the duelling master.
> 
> The question before us is what went wrong with the feast and how it can be
> corrected in the future.  Phlip obviously has a complaint and Master
> Llewellyn has taken issue with her upon it.  Frankly, I can see both points
> of view as being correct.  

And both had some bad points also, not the least of which was using more
than a bit of inflammatory writing. On both sides.

> I had a similar situation occur when Erlich du
> Battenhelm and I took over the kitchen at the First Calontir Crown Tourney
> and salvaged the feast only to lose it again on the feast hall layout and
> the inability to serve feast.  The feast was properly prepared, the
> feaster's starved.

If you would be willing to, I'd like to hear more details about this feast,
how you salvaged this feast and then what went wrong with the feast hall
layout to cause problems in the serving. These are the kinds of things
that I like to have detailed for my fst-disasters-msg file. Not to hold
someone up for criticism, for often these are self-told tales, but so
that others might learn from the mistakes of others and perhaps avoid
repeating the same mistakes. If the teller wishes they may certainly
hide which feast it was.
 
> Rather than allowing this to devolve further into a personality clash, if
> Phlip, Llewellyn, the feast steward and Gunthar are agreeable, we can
> analyze the facts and try to reach some conclusions which may improve our
> abilities to prepare and serve feasts for our patrons.

I would like to see this done. While Phlip was overly caustic in some
of her comments, Master Llewellyn also failed to answer some of her
questions. I'm afraid I haven't got time to go over the critique again
right now, but one I remember was the comment on the use of fetticine
noodles at an oriental feast. Upon what basis was that decision made?
As I mentioned in another recent message, I think that the wrong
choice of noodles can drastically alter the taste and texture of a
dish.

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