[Sca-cooks] a period food fight!

[david friedman]

>Hi there!
>
>I've been reading a book called _City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe_, a
>collection of essays edited by Barbara Hanawalt and Kathryn Reyerson. Very
>spify book, mostly about civic festivals and processions toreceive the King
>or the Duke or whatever, mayoral processions, etc. The last essay is about
>Jaen, in Spain, and in the section about Carnival, they talk about teh
>distribution of food being so excessive (of chickens, partriges, and kids)
>that people started hitting each other with the chickens! There was a mock
>battle with 150 men armed with dried pumpkins. (This was in 1463). On an
>easter Monday in 1461, there was a huge battle using something between nine
>and ten _thousand_ eggs! (Those are some juvenile delinquents, yes?)
>Apparently the event in 1464 also involved pumpkins, eggs, and public
>banquets outside the walls.
>
>Don't tempt me. It would be sooo easy to show up at a feast, fully armed
>with eggs and pumpkins!
>
>Just thought it was interesting-

1. Note that those aren't what we call pumpkins, which come from the New World

2. There is a period Arabic poem about a food fight in a different
sense. The foods are personified and do battle.
--
David/Cariadoc
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