SC - liver (was rare foods at feasts-rant)

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Ian Gourdon of Glen Awe, OP, Known as a forester of the Greenwood, Midrealm
said:
>    Feast is almost always a separate fee, and -whew- it just
> wouldn't occur to 90 people to crash feast - maybe because
> we set up the seating pretty carefully connected to the
> tickets sold - 150 this time (19 tables at 8 feasters each;
> which lets the cook know exactly how many bowls/plates of
> food to serve out - and for calculating cost control. This
> included high table, and the servers)

Which brings up a new question.
    What is the custom in your kingdom as to serving style?  Does it vary
from feast-to-feast, is it determined by the site logistics, the personal
style of the feastcrat or is it pretty set by custom?   Someone said
something about some feastcrat sending out courses plated... I can't see
how that would be possible when folks bring their own feast gear.  I once
sent out my courses "plated" (so to speak)  for the entire table (i.e., one
wooden trencher set with 8 servings for each table per server) but that is
the closest that I've ever seen to plated courses at an SCA feast.  Has
this become common?  Or is it an oddity that happened once to someone?

I remain, in service to Meridies,
Lady Celia des L'archier