[Sca-cooks]Mock Apple Pie? (was "Tuna Cassarole")(was:Shepherd's Pie)

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Wanda Pease:
>You know, I find it strange on a list devoted to medieval cooking, dedicated
>among other things, to persuading people that foods from this era are not
>nasty, over spiced, brown glop that you condemn other cooking in exactly the
>same way.

It's crossed my mind a couple of times in this thread, and maybe it's 
worth throwing out a general reminder -- this isn't directly in 
response to Mistress Regina, nor do I take issue with what she's 
said, but it might perhaps support the idea that I'm not alone in 
thinking about this:

Could we please consider that _it is possible_ to not like something 
without speaking disparagingly of it, or condemning it?

To be honest, I've bit my tongue and avoided making what seem to me 
to be mandatory eggplant cracks about 40 million times in the 
Shpeherd's Pie thread alone, each time I hear about who doesn't like 
peas, or who sees kale on the opposite side of some unspecified 
quality coin from "bland mixed vegetables".

While I am interested in everyone on this list, and in everything 
everyone has to say, I must confess I can't get all worked up about 
who doesn't like peas, canned, fresh, or frozen, unless perhaps the 
person is a guest in my home (and sometimes, not even then!) And 
while it's fine not to like them, maybe we could remember that it's 
not, strictly speaking, necessary to voice our every dislike, and 
when we do, maybe not sound like we're trying out for the criticism 
Olympics?

Just a thought that's been brewing in my mind for a couple of days 
now. But at least it had nothing to do with eggplant. <shudder> ;-)

Adamantius