SC - Culinary uses for horns

[Philip & Susan Troy]

- --- Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com> wrote:
> Daniel Phelps wrote:
> > 
> > Was written:
> > 
> > >I believe UlfR asked if I had ever used a horn
> for any other kitchen
> > >purpose, and the short answer is no, I haven't.
> On the other hand, a
> > >horn funnel (essentially a cow's horn cut off,
> cleaned out, and
> > >truncated at the pointed end) used to be the
> traditional tool used for
> > >force-feeding foie gras geese in France until
> fairly recently, and I
> > >wouldn't be at all surpirsed to see farmers doing
> things like stuffing
> > >sausages with them.
> > 
> > My response:
> > 
> > If you will pardon the digression from things
> directly culinary, in the
> > murder of Edward II there is documentation of the
> use a horn funnel to
> > stuff, albeit rather horrifically.
> > 
> > Daniel Raoul
> 
> Ah, yes, lending whole new meaning to telling the
> King to get stuffed...
> I hadn't realized a horn was involved, just an
> unspecified tube big
> enough to hold a... well, you know...
> 
> However, to get back on track a bit, it suggests
> that either the use of
> a horn as a funnel and, um, opening-widener was
> well-known, or that they
> had such a horn lying around for multiple purposes,
> including the rather
> peculiar one to which it was finally put in the case
> of Edward II.
> 
> Adamantius

Well, I had heard that he was killed using a red-hot
poker up the anus to simulate the kind of sexual
position and technique he prefered.  I can't remember
where I read this, but is certainly horrified me when
I read it.

Huette

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Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they 
shall never cease to be amused.

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