[Sca-cooks] a period food fight!

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Lainie,
My mind is working over time, now, imagining this, anc chuckling in spite of
myself.
Phillipa

> 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.
>