SC - rare foods at feasts-rant

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/22/00 10:54:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
catdeville at mindspring.com writes:


<< While this may not be a problem for many, for others (I started as a poor 
student, so my perspective often comes from that place) >> >>

Hmmm// you must have been a poor student more than 18 years ago and you 
definitely did not come to any of my feasts if you weren't because I always 
feed beggars who show up at the back door.

It's not reasonable to expect them << to pay for an event which includes 
feast and then hop out to McD's.>> >>

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I agree, But it is reasonable to expect them to expect a period feast 
especially if they are paying feast fees separately.  If a period feast is 
presented in the best presentation the cook can manage and NO MATTER WHAT IS 
ON THE MENU so long as it is period, I would say that to not expect a period 
feast paid for or to find the feast not tasty is the result of ignorance in 
the first part and a bad cook in the second part. 

I cannot conceive that any single individual in the SCA would not expect to 
receive period food at any feast they attend in all circumstances. But then 
again wearing black powder garb to events is accepted as appropriate so I 
suppose that the slide outside of appropriate feast menus is not that much of 
an unimaginative event either. 

I serve period feasts, period. My shire serves period feasts, period. 
Neighboring shires serve period feast, period. In my 18 years of SCA 
participation I have had no other experience. To even conceive that this is 
not so in other shires  is inconceivable :-)

Ras
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