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

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach AEllin Olafs dotter:
>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...

True. But then the SCA is the only place I've ever experienced four 
or five days of essentially non-stop list-serv traffic on the subject 
of who doesn't like liver, and we all have to wait patiently until 
all the outlying counties and parishes have been heard from. "Me, 
too! I hate liver, too!" Or fish, or vegetables, or whatever. Once 
one person mentions their dislike, it's like a three-day wait until 
everybody has their turn. Heaven forfend they should be 
disenfranchised over an issue that _really matters_, like this.

But yes, there seems to be this idea that fish is somehow more than 
just a food some people dislike, or just something that fails to 
actively appeal to them: it's somehow as if you insulted them. And 
this is sufficiently acceptable and natural behavior for many people 
for it to be commonplace.

Adamantius