[Sca-cooks] John Barleycorn Menu

[Mark Calderwood]

At 13:54 4/09/02 -0700, you wrote:
>... other than the irritating term 'period-oid' -- can't the period recipe
> >machos come up with a less 80's term for 'not redacted from a period
> >recipe'? Please? I use 'medieval-style' sometimes but I don't think it
> >really means what one is trying to convey.

There is a term in Lochac "mejeeval", which means "kinda sorta but not
really", much like "perioid". It derives from an uneducated
mispronunciation  of "mediaeval", maybe something like that would be useful.

Giles