[Sca-cooks] Re: Serving Utensils

[Elise Fleming]

Someone said:
> > Yup. And most groups skimp by not providing serving utensils.
> At all? Or just not as many as you would like to have?
> Is this true for most SCA groups?

Jadwiga replied:
>I don't know if it is true for most SCA groups. At most feasts I've
>attended, no serving utensils are provided, unless there is soup,
in which
>case a ladle may be provided.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves about feasts (besides calling a
"course" a "remove"!).  If I were to take your piece of meat off
your plate and lick the spices off it, I assume you would be angry
and toss it out.  However, folk dip the spoon they ate from (with
saliva coating) and dip it into the rice/pasta/what-have-you and
their fellow diners think nothing of it.  Who knows what someone is
incubating?  I usually bring several additional spoons with me, but
this is only a bandaid approach to a potential health problem.

Alys Katharine, fussy