[Sca-cooks] Food Fight!!

[Huette von Ahrens]

Pullease!!!!  Let's not!  Yes, this is yet another
period reference to a food fight.  There are others.
But just because it is period, doesn't mean we have to
copy it.  Yes, we as Americans have plentiful food in
abundance, but we really shouldn't be wasting good
food when there are starving people on this planet.
We should be sending 4 thousand eggs to Afghanistan or
Africa or whereever there is hunger, rather than
wasting them on such juvenile "fun".

As I remember my first introduction to the SCA, some
27 years ago, the SCA "recreated the Middle Ages as it
should have been", i.e. without the Plagues, the dirt,
the fleas and the slavery.  Let us keep to this ideal
and abjure food fights also.

Mistress Huette Aliza von und zu Ährens und
Mechthildberg, OL, OD, OHA, OA
Kingdom of Caid
Barony of the Angels
Canton of the Canyons



--- Michael Newton <melcnewt at netins.net> wrote:
> While reading _A Medieval Miscellany_ editied by
> Judith Herrin, which I
> found in my local library (a shock in and of
> itself!), I came across the
> following piece:
>
> Fiesta
>
> During the Carnival in 1464 the Constable, Don
> Miguel Lucas de Iranzo,
> organized a special fiesta in Jaen, with mummers,
> dances and jousts.
>
>
> "Then came the gardeners of the city with shields
> and armour and carrying
> great pumpkins in their hands and in the street a
> great tournaament of
> pumpkins {took place}, the gardeners hitting each
> other until there was not
> one pumpkin whole.
>
> {later in the saame year} the Constable ordered a
> castle on wheels to be
> built, which was brought onto the street of
> Magdalen, surrounded by
> gardeners dressed for battle, and other men with
> trumpets and weapons. And a
> great battle ensued.
>
> When the mobile castle reached the tower where the
> Constable was with his
> men, a great combat began {which they fought} with
> hard-boiled eggs against
> the gardeners and against each other, and betwenn
> 3,000 and 4,000 eggs were
> used and the battle lasted for one or two hours."
>
> In the Index, the text is stated to come from Juan
> de Mata Carriazo (ed.)
> _Hechos del condestable Don Miguel Lucas de Iranzo
> {cronico del siglo XV)_
> (Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1940) chapter XVI pp. 164-6;
> tr. T.Ruiz.
>
> While I think we'd have to talk the Knight's
> Marshall into the first one,
> and I'm pretty sure that they're using a type of
> gourd as holding a New
> World Pumpkin, esp. a "great" one to hit someone
> with sounds rather clumsy
> and heavy, this sounds somewhat doable - how hard is
> a non-dried gourd
> compared to rattan? (if not actual gourds then
> "list-legal" ones made out of
> foam and rattan, ala "Tavern Brawl" weapons)
>
> The only two problems I see with the second fight is
> first cooking that many
> eggs and then picking up after ourselves:)
>
> So, anyone else up for a period food fight?
>
> Beatrix of Tanet
>


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

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