[Sca-cooks] Here we go again- that old rotten meat myth

[Kate Wood]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Raphaella DiContini
<raphaellad at yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://chicagoweekly.net/2010/03/11/medieval-hard-times-the-society-for-creative-anachronism-finds-things-aren%e2%80%99t-what-they-used-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-18411
>
> "These “period Nazis” insist on the utmost historical accuracy in all details, from dress and etiquette to fighting style. Their intense enthusiasm occasionally manifests itself in less than pleasant ways, as when a cook who was a little too eager to adhere to medieval methods of food preparation allowed mutton to go rancid before serving it up from a bubbling cauldron to hundreds of SCA members. Widespread bowel pain constituted that night’s party favor. "
>
> I completely dislike the term "Nazi" used in any way outside of appropriate WWII reference, and the seemingly endless falacy of rotten meat being serves is one of my biggest culinary misinformation pet peeve.


And me, I'm left wondering where they get mutton anyhow. It's not
exactly sold at Stop and Shop!

Kate