Perceptions - was, Re: [Sca-cooks] Tonight on the Food Network - Biblical Foods

[AEllin Olafs dotter]

As I have mentioned, one of the things I do to earn a living  is give 
out food samples. For a full year, I was sampling for the seafood 
department in  grocery stores, three days a week.

Now, it's fairly common for people to be unable or unwilling to eat my 
samples. Allergies, religious or ethical issues, and simple dislike - 
all is fine. But the only people I have had, in the 7 years I've done 
this, who were frequently actually rude were those who disliked 
fish...   I simply came to take it for granted that several people a day 
would make faces at me! Without apology - every so often someone offered 
someone else would react, and then apologize, explaining a dislike.  But 
the ones who disliked fish seemed to be proud of it! And at least one 
would complain "Fish, yuck, why don't you have something good?" 

I don't begin to understand it...   I mean, there are things I don't 
like and so won't eat, but I don't think that's the fault of the person 
offering it to me! But it isn't just SCA, by any means...

AEllin

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

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> In the end, and this is the unfortunate part, the lady comes across as 
> just another fish-hating crybaby aiming their prejudices at the 
> unfamiliar. Which is not to suggest that there aren't people who 
> genuinely have given various fish dishes a fair shot and simply 
> dislike them; it's just that my experience has been that many of the 
> most vocal opponents of fish served at SCA events (in areas where it's 
> plentiful and cheap, anyway) are simply airing an unfortunate side of 
> their upbringing wherein Mommy and Daddy put them in charge at an 
> early stage. I suspect a large overlap between the "I don't eat bait" 
> and the "Vegetables are what food eats" contingents. Rest assured that 
> I have pages and pages of clinical evidence that proves this, but I 
> won't post it here... the dog ate it, and I left it in my other toga. 
> And the sun is in my eyes, and it took a bad hop off the astroturf. 
> But I'd post it if I could, believe me. It's in the mail...
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> Adamantius
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