[Sca-cooks] question: Medieval restaurant at Pennsic

[Bronwynmgn at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/21/2003 7:22:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
olwentheodd at hotmail.com writes:

> LOL..Brangwayna havent' you had experience with the kids doing a pushcart 
> for ice??  

Ice is a pre-packaged product which, in my experience, the kids are simply 
delivering for the person who asked them (and paid them) to get it.  I have 
never yet seen kids who have gone to the store, bought a wagon-load of ice, and 
are trying to sell it for a profit before it melts.  Selling food you made 
yourself from a pushcart would be a totally different situation even from that.

 
> It seems to me that open market vending, even mobile vending, was
> very much a part of so much of the history we clain to reclaim.
> There are certainly items that could be sold from a mobile market.  Pasties, 
> 
> Tart for an Ember Day, roasted meats, sausages, breads, cheeses...heck I 
> could go on and on!  So could any one of us.
> There are a lot of camps out there that do not have a meal plan (or one as 
> good as House Blackstar's) that would be more than happy to partake.
> 

Oh, I'm not denying that any of the above is true.  I'm simply saying that 
running a pushcart at Pennsic with perishable foods is going to be extremely 
difficult due to the need to maintain state-required levels of refrigeration and 
food safety.  And I have seen a food merchant run out of Pennsic for not 
maintaining those levels.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love either a stationary shop where one could buy 
period food, or a push-cart.  It's just not so easy to do.

Brangwayna