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

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> 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.

I believe the herdbeasts and red roots, etc. were adapted indigenous 
species, according to the books about the founding of Pern. I always 
assumed wherries were something like a wild turkey only stupider and as 
nasty as geese.

Of course now I have to dig out my books because I can't remember any 
sheep at all!

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-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net 
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