[Sca-cooks] spice and rotten meat

[Mary Morman]

Like the rest of you, I'm not sure of the origin of this "theory" but it 
is being kept in the public eye at several historical sites in England. 
 I remember hearing it as part of the guides speil at the Shakespeare 
properties - specifically Anne Hathaway's cottage and Mary Arden's farm 
- and at Plas Mawr in Wales.  Both times I spoke up to correct the guide 
both during the tour and then spoke to the people in charge afterwards. 
 No one was at all interested in differentiating fact from fiction.

Elaina

-- 
To be humble to superiors is duty,
  to equals courtesy,
  to inferiors nobleness.
                Benjamin Franklin