[Sca-cooks] True sandwich

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Stefan li Rous wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Jane Sitton wrote:
> > > Well, my name is:  Madelina de Lyndesaye.  I'm a Norman.
> > >
> > > Buwahahahahahaha
> >
> > Woo-Hoo!
> > Another Norman girl! Normans Rock!
> >
> > 'Lainie
> > (Elaine de Montgris, of course)
>
> Well, add a third Norman (assuming Anglo-Norman counts) to your list.
>
> I'd love to hear more about Norman cooking, but other than one manuscript,
> there doesn't appear to be much info.
>
> Normans are a rather small and often maligned minority around my
> area, buried among a lot of Scots in kilts and 1595 Englishman.

Sank 'Eaven... for Norman girls...
For Normandy gets beeger every day...

Sank 'Eaven... for Norman girls...
Zey conquer Eengland in ze most delightful ways...
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Actually, one of the more interesting pro-Norman arguments I've heard in
the SCA ran something like this:

Q: "Pfeh! By the 12th century, the Irish had distillation, brain
surgery, and representative government! What did the Normans have?"

A: "Ireland."
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My own take on it is, so what do I care if a bunch of thieves steal a
country from the thieves who stole it from me?

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com