Fw: Fw: [Sca-cooks] How the turkey got its name ...

[Phlip]

And more:

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

I wrote:

> >Thank you, love, I think I'll fwd this over to Cook's List.
> >
> >Meantime, they're discussing making cookies appropriate to different
> >members:
> >
> > > Well, it got me thinking about various SCA-Cooks chara, er, members as
> > > Gingerbread men and women.
> > > A Fred Flintstone look-alike for Adamantius.
> > > One with orange icing for 'Lainie.
> > > One sprinkled with saffron for Cariadoc.
> > > One with a baker's hat for Bear. (A gingerbread bear?)
> > > One with a few peppers for Phlip.
> > > One made of sugarpaste for Alys Katharine.
> > > A pair in Spanish outfits for Brighid and Vicente.
> > > etc.
> > >
> > > Stefan

And he responded:

> Sound good.  Wish I could get some samples.  Send me a care package?  If I
> keep being on this listserv I'll have to develop a medieval persona.  How
> about Ye Shangou, Chinese Taoist sage of the Song orYuan Dynasty and
> sometime ambassador to the Mongol court?  (There really was a famous
Taoist
> ambassador to the Mongols.  Ye Shangou, however, is Chinese for "wild >
coyote," or "krazy koyote"--my usual email signoff)  Sound OK?  I could
> work up a phony biog based on the real Taoist dude.
> Meanwhile, Chinese too has its misnamings:  Sichuan millet is one name for
> maize (which reached west China from India--probably via Sichuan).  Turkey
> in Chinese is huo ji, which means "fire chicken."  In bahasa
> Malaysia/Indonesia it's the "Dutch chicken" (ayam belanda) and the rabbit
> is a "Dutch cat."  My very favorite turkey word, though, is the
> Malagasy:  vorontsiloa (sp?), the "not dangerous bird."  I guess the
> Malagasy were scared of this huge, gaudy creature when it first appeared
on
> the scene, and somebody gave it this name to reassure them.
>
> best--Gene

Saint Phlip,
CoD

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....



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