[Sca-cooks] Overdocumentation with food content

[Martin G. Diehl]

lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> Well, there are a bunch of different issues now in this 
> thread and i won't address them all. Note, there is a 
> RECIPE at the end of thismessage :-)

I'm impressed ... that's an excellent way to entice us into 
reading the message in its entirety.  

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> As for "authenticity N*z*s" - i *_hate_* that term. I 
> find it really  deeply disturbing. I believe the people 
> using it have no idea what the N*z*s actually did.

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> Why not just call them what they are? Rude!

When I first attended SCA meetings, I was advised that 
whenever approached by the "Period Police", pictures 
should be taken -- for the Wanted! posters.  

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> And persona? 

When I was employed as a Senior Manager at a Big 5 Accounting 
firm in the mid 1990's and before finding the SCA, one of the 
partners in our group gave me an odd directive.  

He insisted that I promise to, " .. never come to work in
Renaissance costume!"  He was not an old fogey, he was 10 
to 15 years *younger* than me.  

Even with my active, creative mind, that kind of dress code error
had never occurred to me ... and said so.  He 
persisted, and I responded, "It is more unlikely for me to 
come to work in Renaissance garb as it would be for me to 
go to a Renaissance Faire in a business suit ... where my 
friends might see me!"  (See me and laugh!, that is!)  

He went on to disavow ever (past or future) wearing a 
costume.  When I asked if he was in a business suit for his 
wedding, he answered, "Of course I wore a Tuxedo."  I said, 
"You see, at a wedding -- wedding costume; at the office -- 
office costume; at a Renaissance Faire -- Renaissance 
costume."  I was also trying to loose the distinction 
between costume and clothing -- and that didn't sink in 
either.  

I never did find out what triggered that strange interchange 
-- unless it was that department Halloween party several 
years earlier (if so, why wait so long?) where I was well 
dressed in a Moresca doublet, a lacy 18th C. shirt, black 
Danskins Dancewear as hose, gray suede boots.  (If anyone 
needs to ask a kilt-like question, I'll answer that off-list) 

I don't know ... maybe he was a Muggle before his time!

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> I spent a long time as a Ren Fair actor, and i know how 
> off-putting being in persona could be to paying customers 
> who thought i was either very weird or crazy or both (what 
> the heck were they expecting?). 

One season of the NY Renaissance Faire, I was hanging out 
at the Moresca booth ... another Rennie came by to tell us 
that she had overheard two patrons, "I'm so disappointed, 
they're all nothing but actors!"  Lena Dun (owner of Moresca) 
observed, "What on Earth did they expect, 400 Year old 
Englishmen?"

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All that I can say is, "Thank the epowers that we understand 
each other!"

Vincenzo

-- 
Martin G. Diehl

http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Yes&Artist=MGD

Reality: That which remains after you stop thinking about it.
  inspired by P. K. Dick