[Sca-cooks] Regulations against selling rotten meat

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Pat:
>By that same reasoning, today's legal obsession with food 
>cleanliness indicates that modern American's regularly consume 
>massive amounts of spoiled meat.

Round about 1300 C.E. (I forget the exact date -- 1307?) William 
Wallace was the first man to be executed under a new law prescribing 
a very specific penalty for treason.

He was hanged, castrated, drawn, beheaded and quartered, and his 
various bodily segments were sent to the four corners of the Kingdom 
to serve as a warning to all who would rebel against the King of 
England.

Needless to say, there weren't a whole lot of people interested in 
repeating William's offense against the English king.

But this story has a happy ending. Just as William's body parts began 
to get really niffy, the people sprinkled them with powdered cloves, 
cinnamon, cubebs, pepper, and grains of paradise.

And they all lived happily ever after ;-).

Adamantius (sorry -- in one of those moods)

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>Chris Stanifer <jugglethis at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>  However, if the practice were prevalent enough to warrant
>the issuance of a proclamation denouncing it, and the creation of 
>punishments for offence, then it
>would stand to reason that it had been going on for some time, would 
>it not? At least long enough
>for people to say 'hey...w.t.f?!?'
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>William de Grandfort
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>Pat Griffin
>Lady Anne du Bosc
>known as Mordonna the Cook
>Shire of Thorngill, Meridies
>Mundanely, Millbrook, AL
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