[Sca-cooks] Rotten meat and spices...

[dale elliott]

What of the pheasent scene from Sho-Gun.  Did the English hand the pheasent until the neck rotted?  or is this bunk?  

I know I do prefer aged meats<and not always aged properly by modern standards>, but that is me.  And I am sure, if you are poor enough and that is all you have, rotten is better than nothing.

Thoughts?
Joy
Radei
----- Original Message -----
From: Phlip <phlip at 99main.com>
To: "SCA-Cooks" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>, EKCooksGuild at yahoogroups.com, mk-cooks at midrealm.org, SCAFoodandFeasts at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Rotten meat and spices...
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:18:59 -0400

> 
> OK, guys, we're getting some help on the "rotten meat" issue. This is from
> the lady who wrote the article I forwarded the url to you guys a few days
> ago, where she's debunking that annoying article that keeps coming around
> about the bad old days.
> 
> http://historymedren.about.com/od/dailylifesociety/a/bod_intro.htm
> 
> As I mentioned, I wrote her a letter thanking her for the article, and the
> following is her response. Since she's helping sort out that other annoying
> myth, about rotten meat and too many spices, I figured we could help her out
> a bit. Yes, Stefan, the first thing I did was send her to the Florilegium
> ;-) However, I remember us discussing a few other things on SCA Cooks List,
> and I'd very much like to have the citations, if y'all can find them. One of
> them was about the butcher who was punished by being made to wear the rotten
> meat around his nexk- another was a discussion of how many critters were
> used in a given town- I think the first cite was from England, the second
> from Italy.
> 
> I'd also be interested in anything else y'all have in the way of related
> citations, helping prove the point- what I'd like to do is collect
> everything y'all come up with, combine them into one email (with appropriate
> credit) and send the information off to her in one email, rather than
> innundating her with a bazillion of them.
> 
> Thanks ;-)
> 
> Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
> 
> > Hello, Phlip,
> >
> > Thank you for your kind comments about the "Bad Old Days" feature. It
> > was amazingly easy to debunk the nonsense with an encyclopedia and a
> > fews good books. I get some good feedback, although I think a lot of
> > people would prefer to think that medieval people were stupid, filthy
> > and just plain silly. Maybe because it makes them feel superior by
> > comparison?
> >
> > In the future, I hope to continue "mythbusting," and the "covering up
> > the flavor of rotten meat with lots of spices" myth is one of the first
> > things I'll address, along with dental hygiene and the right of "first
> > night." If you have any other myths you'd like to see debunked, I'm
> > wide open to suggestions, and if you have any sources you'd like to
> > recommend, I'd appreciate it if you'd pass them along.
> >
> > I hope you continue to enjoy your visits to the Medieval History site!
> >
> > Best,
> > Melissa Snell
> > About Guide to Medieval History
> > http://historymedren.about.com/
> > On Mar 31, 2005, at 9:31 AM, Phlip wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hello, Melissa,
> > >
> > > Just wanted to thank you for your article debunking that obnoxious
> > > urban
> > > legend running around, "Liufe in the Middle Ages" (or 15th century, or
> > > whatever they're calling it this week). As you said, initially it was
> > > mildly
> > > amusing, but since then, I've had it sent to me several times, and
> > > actually
> > > had ignorant yutzes try to quote it to me, to "prove" some idiocy or
> > > another. I shall keep, cherish, and disseminate the url copiously ;-)
> > >
> > > Now, any chance you can do anything about "People in the Middle ages
> > > used
> > > lots of spices to cover up the flavor of rotten meat" ? I'll be more
> > > than
> > > happy to help you with the research.
> > >
> > > Saint Phlip,
> 
> Saint Phlip,
> CoD
> 
> "When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
>   Blacksmith's credo.
> 
>   If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
> cat.
> 
> Never a horse that cain't be rode,
> And never a rider who cain't be throwed....
> 
> 
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joy

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