[Sca-cooks] war food

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach jenne at fiedlerfamily.net:
>To change the subject back to food,
>
>Anyone have any tid-bits about the kinds of foods that might be assoicated
>with war in period? Someone (dembinska I think) said that in period Poland
>Tripe was associated with sieges because it preserved easily and was kept
>around pickled.

Hunh. Pickled tripe. Yum. Actually, I'm familiar with modern Polish
sorta-kinda jellied tripe, which isn't bad at all, and certainly no
more grotesque than head cheese (which I don't consider grotesque
anyway, but some of you people are weird).

;-)

Adamantius