[Sca-cooks] Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>

Antonia Calvo ladyadele at paradise.net.nz
Thu Aug 21 13:32:33 PDT 2008


Beth Ann Bretter wrote:

>>Elaine Koogler wrote:
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>>>The biggest insult was the
>>>one who came into the kitchen long enough to inform us
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>>(at his decoronation)
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>>>that he was hanging around long enough to serve High
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>>Table (a tradition here
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>>>in Atlantia), but that he'd be leaving as soon as
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>>the serving was done
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>>>because he refused to eat feasts!  The other head cook
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>>(a good friend who
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>>>rarely loses her temper) threw, not a wobbly, but her
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>>tennis shoe!  The only
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>>>reason he didn't get hit was because he had closed
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>>the door behind him
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>>>seconds before the shoe hit the door!
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>>Oh, Gods... yup, throwing a shoe sounds like a very
>>moderate and 
>>restrained reaction, to that.  I don't know what
>>I'd have done in the 
>>same circumstances, but I'm sure it wouldn't have
>>been nice.
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>Wow.  I hope you're kidding because throwing anything is never a moderate and restrained reaction.
>
>I've been in the SCA a long time and a peer for half a decade and I can honestly say I don't even remotely understand the outrage to someone saying they don't like sitting feast.
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>


I don't care if people come to feasts or not. I don't care if people eat 
or not.  Coming into the kitchen to personally inform the cook that you 
refuse to eat her food, however, is a grave insult.


-- 
Antonia di Benedetto Calvo

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