[Sca-cooks] Rotten meat and spices... (a few excerpts fromApicius)

[Jeff Gedney]

> The specific regulation is that a person who wishes to sell 
> spoiled meat must take a place before the town pillory and sell 
> the meat for what it is, spoiled meat.  There is no 
> specification as to how the meat is to be used by the 
> purchaser.  The location before the pillory is an interesting 
> point, since it suggests that the meat may have been used for 
> purposes other than eating.

Right... It _might_ have been used to throw at people in the pillory. Offal and garbage being often used for usch purposes...

Nota bene:
Spoiled meat MIGHT have also been sold as animal food, not necesarily for Human food.

A person who owns pigs, dogs, bears, and several sorts of birds may have uses for spoiled meat that has nothing to do with immediate human consumption. 

Still need proof of human consumption.
Please provide some of the often cited "many examples" of "rescuing" spoiled meat for Human consumption.

Capt Elias
-Renaissance Geek of the Cyber Seas

- Help! I am being pecked to death by the Ducks of Dilletanteism! 
There are SO damn many more things I want to try in the SCA than I can possibly have time for. It's killing me!!!

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