[Sca-cooks] Primitive camping was Re: On-line Pennsic Pity Party

[Sue Clemenger]

Oddly enough, or perhaps not so oddly, the mundane family camping I did as a
child was a LOT more "primitive" than any SCA camping I've ever done.
Tents? We have tents? this is good! and a coleman stove? doubly good!
--maire
----- Original Message -----
From: "UlfR" <ulfr at hunter-gatherer.org>
To: "SCA-Cooks maillist SCA-Cooks" <SCA-Cooks at Ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] On-line Pennsic Pity Party


> Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com> [2006.05.24] wrote:
> > at Pennsic, the ultimate primitive site.>>>
> >
> > Well, it is often hard to call many Pennsic kitchen's "primitive
>
> I remember years, and years ago. Someone mentioned to me that SCA often
> meant primitive camping. After I explained that to me primitive was
> either paleolithic or (possibly) being dumped in the woods with nothing
> but your clothes and perhaps a knife we agreeed that SCA camping was
> less primitive than many was used to, but perhaps not *that* primitive.
>
> These days I think primitive for many people actually translates more
> into "significantly less than the speaker is used to". If that means a
> wooden trestle table, a built up fireplace with hangers for pots, and a
> "full" 15th century cooking kit or a stone knife, a fresh killed hare,
> a lake shore to gather some veggies, and a digging stick to make the
> cooking pit with all depends on the speakers perspective.
>
> UlfR