[Sca-cooks] RE: . Re: Some list members pictures!

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In a message dated 6/10/2002 1:45:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
olwentheodd at hotmail.com writes:


> Here in Atlantia we have asked the reigning Crown to deem chocolate period.
> We have managed to be successful.

You know, I really dislike this particular strategem.  I know a lot of cooks
like to play with chocolate, and find it a really easy way to make subtleties
and such, but darn it, there's enough cool stuff available in period to
ignore it and do something that is better recreation.
And the act of having someone in power "declare it period" is just wrong.
There's no rule that says you have to use period foodstuffs to begin with, so
there is no reason to draw attention to the fact that you want to use
chocolate by having the Royalty declare it period.  That just makes it look
like we can mess with what was available in period.  Why not declare kiwi
fruits period? Or cell phones?  Or portable TVs?  The royalty declared them
period, so now we can use them in the middle of the hall!

Disgruntled,
Brangwayna