[Sca-cooks] OT - A little history

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

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jeanne at atasteofcreole.com wrote:

> Some are blatantly wrong, but it's still good fun reading!

I suppose it might seem fun if you haven't read it before.  The trouble is, it's been posted to every medieval list, group or forum, multiple times.  It's only fun the first time (if at all), and many people dislike seeing erroneous information spread.  It's rather like the infamous "Neiman Marcus Cookie" story, which still appears on cooking and baking lists, to the great annoyance of the regulars.

And Brangwayna Morgan wrote:

> SOME of them??? Try all of them.  This list of "historical 
> facts" is so bad it's on the Snopes Urban Legend website...

Actually, Snopes found ONE correct item in the piece -- the origin of "upper crust".  This makes it 50% less accurate than the proverbial broken clock.

Brighid ni Chiarain