[Sca-cooks] Fantasy foods was Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 5, Issue 43

[Lisa]

If I remember correctly, wherries were an indigenous animal, along with the
fire lizards.  I do believe that they supposedly resembled turkeys in some
ways, but weren't quite what we considered fowl.  In the books where they
had just landed, they called animals by their acutal names, horses, cattle,
sheep, etc... I suspect that the idea is that when they lost so many people
to the beginnings of thread and later to plague/flu epidemics, they also
lost a lot of history and things were called by descriptors rather than
names.  Herdbeasts would cover all herd type animals, runnerbeasts would
cover all the different breeds of horses, etc.  They went from a very high
technological start to a basic living needs agrarian society.

Elizabeta

> > Margaret FitzWilliam
> What is the deal with the English language on Pern anyway?  How did they
> lose all their food words in favor of descriptions? I guess
> "heardbeasts" instead of "cows" and "red roots" instead of "beets"
> sounded more Fantasy somehow.  Meh.  I was never sure what a "wherry"
> bird was anyway.  Turkey?  I never lived with one so I don't know how
> good a turkey is as an intruder warning system.  Ducks are great at that
> though.
>
> And didja ever notice how every planet has some kind of coffee, often
> with chocolate?  Klah, jaco, whatever you want to call it.  I think it
> says more about writers than alien worlds, frankly.
>
> Selene
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