[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:
>>
>>
>>>The biggest insult was the
>>>one who came into the kitchen long enough to inform us
>>>
>>>
>>(at his decoronation)
>>
>>
>>>that he was hanging around long enough to serve High
>>>
>>>
>>Table (a tradition here
>>
>>
>>>in Atlantia), but that he'd be leaving as soon as
>>>
>>>
>>the serving was done
>>
>>
>>>because he refused to eat feasts! The other head cook
>>>
>>>
>>(a good friend who
>>
>>
>>>rarely loses her temper) threw, not a wobbly, but her
>>>
>>>
>>tennis shoe! The only
>>
>>
>>>reason he didn't get hit was because he had closed
>>>
>>>
>>the door behind him
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>>>seconds before the shoe hit the door!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>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.
>>
>>
>
>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.
>
>
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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Habeo metrum - musicamque,
hominem meam. Expectat alium quid?
-Georgeus Gershwinus
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