[Sca-cooks] You know you might be an SCA cook when

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

You might be an SCA cook when...

- You can provide all the cooking gear and serving gear for a feast for 
50 or a casual mundane luncheon for 75 out of your basement. Not 
counting stuff that belongs to your local shire.
- your mundane brother who has worked in catering doesn't know where to 
pick up disposable chafer pans, but you do.
- the date began to go downhill when the waitress said, "... and honey 
butter..."
- You have things in your fridge or freezer from feasts that occured 
before the millenium-- and they are still edible.
- you go shopping becuase 'there's nothing to eat in the house,' but 
can't fit anything in the cupboards because they are bursting with medieval 
cooking supplies
- You have carefully explained to the waitress that no, the rosemary on 
the steak would NOT make it too peppery, while everyone else at the 
table choked into their napkins.
- You have walked into the kitchen at your mundane brother's wedding and 
the caterer thought you were with the site.
- You have shown up to the rehearsal at a wedding in your girlfriend's 
family and told her she could find you in the kitchen with the caterer 
when she was done.
- The little snacky things you provided for the bride's retinue when you 
were matron of honor were more lavish than the wedding dinner
- you have ever found yourself explaining period blancmange or similar 
type of dish to a stranger on some form of public transport (plane, bus, 
taxi, line at amusement park)
- Your idea of a great day's shopping is a variety of discount food 
stores, farmer's markets, and Restaurant supply stores...
- you have voluntarily gone food shopping with Juliana von Altenfeld 
more than once-- but the second time you wore running shoes. :)
- your idea of 'whipping up a little something' for a potluck would 
supply 6 batchelors several 3 course meals.
- you have a mental index of places to buy food cheaply that are more 
than 40 miles away from your home...


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-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net 
"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would 
be librarians." -- Warren Buffet, Washington Post, April 17, 1988