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 12:59 PM, Susan Fox wrote:

> Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> So, everyone else will get a great period feed as only Baroness  
> Murirath can provide, while King Sloth-Boy gets the bread and  
> cheese he wants. No problem.  Not nearly the same kind of problem  
> child as some picky royals we have had in the past, who whined in  
> public and would not allow their non-preferred foodstuffs to be at  
> the same event as them.  That was ... inconvenient and undignified.

I'm sure. And that's really the thing, when you get down to it: these  
people are supposed to be setting the standard for dignified behavior  
for the group. If the Royalty is genuinely in favor of period food as  
a means of adding that extra dimension to the game, but is medically  
barred from participating in that way, at least they are being  
supportive of the game in all its aspects. It would be on the par of  
a King who is a recovering alcoholic, who appoints a Royal Taster for  
all the people who insist on giving the King booze. "Please offer  
some of that to Baron Drinksalot, who will give me a complete report.  
Thanks for thinking of me!"

On the other hand, if it's somebody who just doesn't feel eating  
anything but the steak and potatoes they've been living on since they  
put their parents in their place back when they were three, I'd like  
to think someone like that would say, "Well, I'd like to sit on the  
throne of this Kingdom, but since part of the job description  
includes eating a few spoonfuls of dillegrout now and again, I'm  
better off not doing that..."

Unfortunately, they don't seem to be saying that ;-).

> I'm finding the Period Pizza thing to be an amusing challenge  
> actually. I may try to get a portable bread/pizza oven together  
> sometime this summer just for proper wood-firing.
> Making lemonade from these lemons,
> Selene

Which is exactly what I'd be doing in similar circumstances. Happy  
hunting, and let us know what you come up with.

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