[Sca-cooks] question: Medieval restaurant at Pennsic

[Angie Malone]

There is a snow cone kind of place at Pennsic.  Something Rose?  I know 
because when it was really hot that's where I got a 'cold refreshing lemon ice'

Very pricey however, at least $2.00 for a container.  So competition might 
be in order. I don't think Cooper's would care if you did sell ice 
cream.  Do they sell more than those pre-packaged ice cream thingees?

         Angie

At 08:09 AM 7/20/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Also sprach Stefan li Rous:
>>>    What about this idea: (OOP)..a pushcart selling frozen snack items (sort
>>>of a medieval "ice-cream truck")?
>>Since the Coopers sell ice-cream at their store, I doubt they will allow 
>>this. I also think that while blanket merchants are allowed at Pennsic, 
>>I'm not sure any wandering merchants are.
>>I really would prefer a period item. I highly applaud the lady that 
>>started selling comfits and other medieval sweets at Gulf War this year. 
>>I think she may be at this next Pennsic.
>
>How about several period fruit syrups over shaved ice, essentially a 
>snow-cone, which may well be period? The main difficulty I can see is that 
>it might be seen to have a rather unattractively low profit margin. You 
>pretty much have to make them to order, wheel your equipment and a big 
>block of ice around, and how much could you realistically sell them for 
>before people just go to the Cooper's and get chocolate ice cream?
>
>Adamantius
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