SC - What would you do? or 2 months to freak out
Jenne Heise
jenne at mail.browser.net
Wed May 2 11:47:27 PDT 2001
>Micaylah replied to me with:
>> > Umm. I'd hate to see a possibly rare, even one-time import of some
>> > bananas used to justify the use of bananas as period. There appears
>> > to be some real question as to whether that find actually dates from
>> > within our period, at all. For more details, see this file in the
>> > FOOD-FRUITS section of the Florilegium:
>> > bananas-msg (17K) 1/24/01 Period bananas. When and where
>> > known.
>>
>> Havent seen any updates yet refuting it. I posted the find to our
>> Kingdom list and that was technically the last I heard. Can someone
>> refer me to actual documentation for me to post in regards to this so i
>> can forward it?
>
>I've not gone looking in any referance journals, but Bear (I think it
>was he) posted a good message arguing against this being a real find
>from period. That message is in the above file. That's why I mentioned
>that file. It also gives some of the info on this banana find.
>
>I think Bear's main point was that until the creation of faster
>transportation (steamship?), bananas just didn't last long enough to
>get from their point of origin to England in an edible condition.
>
>Stefan li Rous
>stefan at texas.net
I basically agree, just because one banana made it somewhere in
Europe in late period, doesn't mean they should proliferate at SCA
banquets.
I have read that bananas were eaten by Near Easterners in period,
however. So perhaps at a Near Eastern banquet, although i haven't
found a recipe that includes them yet.
Anahita
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