[Sca-cooks] Flaming Nobles

[Jeff Elder]

That sounds a lot like the tale "Hopfrog, or the eight chained
Ourang-Outangs" by Edgar Allen Poe.
http://www.literatureclassics.com/etexts/104/194/

Except Hopfrog did not concern the use of food.

Simon Hondy

> I've not been following this thread but has anyone mentioned that famous
> incident in the French court where in three, or was it four, high ranking
> nobles were "accidentally" burned to death when their "wildmen of the
> woods" costumes caught fire?
>
> Daniel