Food-related Meta-Issue -- was, Re: [Sca-cooks] Cola with sugar was Semi-OT: So... guten Pesach to them as does it...

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Apr 13, 2006, at 11:59 AM, <tom.vincent at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I think it's disgraceful, but that's what you get when you choose  
> 'leaders' by combat skills alone instead of by leadership skill and  
> reflection of preferred Medieval/Renaissance presence.  Pick  
> leaders that present themselves as positive role models and  
> accurately portray period royals.

Well, I tend to see the world in shades of grey (figuratively  
speaking), and there's plenty about period royalty I'd rather not see  
in the SCA, but in general, I become concerned about   how our views  
as a group are evolving.

So, for example, it's my opinion that the squire in the household of  
one of our recent kings, who sidled up to a friend of mine at 12th  
Night and informed her (she being a Laurel, a Pelican, one of the two  
senior territorials by precedence in my Kingdom, and founder or co- 
founder of several guilds, our company of waterbearers, and our  
company of archers) that you were NOTHING in this group if you  
weren't a currently active and high-level fighter, needs to be taken  
behind the woodshed by those he considers authority figures and given  
the spanking his daddy obviously never gave him. I'd like to think  
that prospective candidates for Royalty in my Kingdom might be the  
ones to give it.

But as for how food figures in with all this, I have no problem with,  
and great sympathy for, those with crippling food allergies. I just  
have no patience for adults with the food habits of a four-year-old  
-- that should be their problem, and not mine, or my Kingdom's.

Adamantius


"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

"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
     -- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry  
Holt, 07/29/04