[Re: [Sca-cooks] Some disturbing news about one of the foodmerchants atPennsic]]

[Daniel Myers]

On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 09:07 PM, Patches wrote:
>
>  And I in no way meant to imply that the rules governing Pennsic 
> merchants are
> silly - but I have seen some arbitrary rules which defied logic! My 
> favorite
> over the years was at a Ren Faire which stated "No person working in a 
> booth
> shall wear a hat or headgear" Now, why would that possibly need to be
> regulated? Shouldn't food vendors HAVE to wear hats? Just one example 
> that
> pops to mind.

Usually such rules are created in response to someone doing something 
incredibly stupid.  The example you mentioned might have been the 
direct result of some yo-yo wearing a huge cavalier hat with plume 
while cooking over open flame.

I was rather surprised to see the ladies with bare midriffs cooking at 
the Chinese food place at Pennsic.  Seemed to me like trouble just 
waiting to happen.

- Doc


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