[Sca-cooks] fruit

[Steve]

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It wasn't mentioned but, by it's placement and the neat way that the cloves
were inserted, my guess is that it was made for decoration or as a pomander
smell good thingie.

Æduin

At 04:15 PM 11/18/2001 -0600, you wrote:

>=C6duin (AEduin?) said:
> > Just saw the beginning of Naomi Judd's Thanksgiving special and there at
> > the bottom of the screen was a cloven orange.  Who says FoodTV doesn't have
> > any period content?
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>Was this cloved (Not cloven, it was in one piece, right?) orange there
>as decoration? Or as a game piece? The use of a cloved orange as a
>game piece in the flirting game is completely an SCA invention. Details
>of it's history (and an apology from one of the original creators) can
>be found in this file in the ENTRTAINMENT section of the Florilegium:
>cloved-fruit-msg  (13K)  9/29/99    Period cloved fruit. Origin of the
>SCA game.
>http://www.florilegium.org/files/ENTERTAINMENT/cloved-fruit-msg.html
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