[Sca-cooks] a period food fight!

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 01:30 AM 7/12/02 -0700, you wrote:
>>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.
>
>1. Note that those aren't what we call pumpkins, which come from the New
World

That I knew- and I am guessing since it said _dried_ pumpkins that they
were some sort of gourd. Still- doesn't it bring to vision some rampage by
the local 'rough' teenagers on Halloween night?

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

Veggie Tales!

:-D)

'Lainie
-fan of Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber...
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