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

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise:
>  > That's reading quite a bit into it, I think.  The mention of 
>bacon alone indicates that she did
>>  have ample pork as a protein source,
>
>Gies and Gies and other sources indicate that bacon and other small
>portions of meat were often given to day laborers as hire or given out
>among the customary exchanges for harvest help. So she might not have
>had a pig in order to have bacon.

Flitches of bacon were apparently being given out as prizes for 
various competitions and achievements in English county fairs in the 
20th century... I wouldn't be at all surprised to find this was a 
very old custom.

Adamantius
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"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la 
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them 
eat cake!"
	-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques 
Rousseau, "Confessions", 1782

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