[Sca-cooks] sponge cake and such and can we keep him

[Stefan li Rous]

> Can I eat the fig newtons with hot sauce ? I have on occassion eaten dark
> chocolate with a good salsa in the past...It really was rather tasty. Try it
> sometime.
>
> Iago
> Sorry if I offended anyone with the previous, I do know that you do not eat
> fig newtons with hot sauce.

Iago, trust me. There have been much, much worse combinations of food, and
single food items, discussed on this list. Fig newtons with hot sauce
is only a little unusual here. Other than perhaps the lung dishes and
perhaps some of the organ meat dishes, I think most of the really
disgusting foods have been non-period for the SCA.

For some of the unusual period dishes, see these files in the Florilegium:
exotic-meats-msg  (73K)  9/21/01    Period and SCA exotic meats. Swans,
ostrich,
                                       crawfish, dormice, cat.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MEATS/exotic-meats-msg.html
organ-meats-msg   (92K) 10/ 1/01    Period cooking of organ meats.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MEATS/organ-meats-msg.html

But as Adamantius reminded us recently, what one person finds disgusting,
another may enjoy. ie: Spam, which is wonderful sliced and fried, yet
somehow, he doesn't consider food.

Along this line, I was rather surprised to see in my local HEB grocery
today, whole pig's heads for sale. Snout, empty eye sockets and all.
Although I think there were two pieces in the bag. Perhaps they pull
out the brain and other pieces. I think these pig heads must be a key
ingredient in some holiday hispanic dish. Tamales, perhaps?

They appeared to be fairly cheap, too. :-)
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
   Mark S. Harris            Austin, Texas          stefan at texas.net
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