[Sca-cooks] How much land to feed a person

[Volker Bach]

Am Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2005 00:42 schrieb Martin G. Diehl:
> Volker Bach wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 3. Mai 2005 23:07 schrieb Phlip:
> >>You know, guys, I keep seeing this thread, and thinking of a mud pie
> >> eating contest. Are mud pies even period?
> >
> > In the left background of Pieter Breughel's 1560 painting 'children's
> > games', today at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna,  we can see a
> > child (of indeterminate gender) playing on a sand hill. There is a darker
> > patch of sand to its left clearly modelled in three dimensions that can
> > be tentatively identifioed as a precursor of the mud pie. I assume,
> > however, that a mud pie as the 20th century understands it would require
> > a shaped mould that was not in common use by children before plastic put
> > it within financial reach of most families in Europe, but I am told that
> > mud pies are still made without those tools by peasant communities in
> > Africa and South America.
> >
> > What do you mean it wasn't a serious question?
>
> While you are attending Pennsic, may I suggest that you should always
> be sure to perform a very careful inspection of any gift pies from SPCA.

I wish I could. It's across the Atlantic from me.

Giano