[Sca-cooks] Red Tower feast and Haggis Redux

[Philip W. Troy & Susan Troy]

Olwen the Odd wrote:

> A friend posted me the website for Red Tower event and here is how they have
> the feast listed.  I thought it a curious way to advertise a feast.
>
>>> Feast ingredients, from Borgar: "We will be serving beef, chicken, and
>>> pork, for the meats. The most likely veggies: carrots, onions, bell
>>> peppers, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms, bean sprouts, and
>>> whatever else I find on sale. We will be using assorted items to season
>>> the cooking with, such as garlic oil, rice wine, chicken broth, beef
>>> broth, soy sauces, hot sauces plus whatever else I can find in the
>>> kitchen."
>>
>
> When I asked about the bell peppers, he said, "they are period... Columbus
> found and named them in 1492 on his trip to the West Indies."
> <<<<


It sure was considerate of Columbus to learn English for the benefit of
posterity. Some people are married to their ignorance and your efforts
to change that will not be appreciated. As in the haggis question of a
couple of days ago...

Saturday I found myself in posession of a frozen haggis made by one of
the better butchers of Kearney, NJ, a town settled almost entirely by
Irish and Scots (they have the second largest Saint Patrick's Day Parade
on the Eastern seaboard of the U.S.A., after New York City, but they
hold theirs on the saturday before the actual date, so they can pack up
and attend New York's parade, too).

A quick peek inside the white butcher's paper wrapper revealed an
eminently brown haggis, without a trace of slime.

On the other hand, at the Old Westbury Highland Games and Clan
Gathering, I had my first actual sighting of real, honest-to-gosh,
tinned haggis. I had not believed it was real until I could see it with
my own eyes, but there it was. My life has changed for ever. I almost
bought a tin of the stuff to keep on my mantelpiece as an objet d'art,
but then I remembered I don't have a mantelpiece.

Adamantius, quickly building a shelf
--
Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com

"It was so blatant that Roger threw at him.  Clemens gets away with
things that get other people thrown out of games.  As long as they
let him get away with it, it's going  to continue." -- Joe Torre, 9/98