SC - feasting and religion
Christina van Tets
cjvt at hotmail.com
Fri Mar 2 01:15:58 PST 2001
Hello the List (again)!
Isn't there a period reference somewhere to a Christian who fed Jewish
friends at his house, and played an unfortunate practical joke on them (told
them that the salt pork they were eating was herring??) and subsequently
lost his friends?
I must have this at home somewhere; the library here doesn't bother with
anything except desert sciences. Will look - so that's 2 things I have to
find this weekend...
Incidentally, many of the strictly observant Jews here won't eat from anyone
else's pots and pans (sigh - my 3-legged pot has never held dairy, only
meat, but it's _touched_ my wooden spoons), but don't mind barbecues - they
say the fire cleanses everything.
Personally, I don't mind eating according to someone else's restrictions
(this seems to go for most of the people here, who are a mix of Jewish,
Christian, Muslim and Hindu) as long as I do not feel _forced_ to eat
something forbidden to me. I think it would be incredibly rude of me to
demand that my host provide something for me that he cannot eat himself,
purely to show that I do not subscribe to his religion. He already knows
that. Mind you, I think it would also be incredibly rude of me not to
provide something that a guest with restrictions other than mine could eat
in my house. I'd be willing to bet that people thought like this in period
too, in areas where they mixed.
Cairistiona
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