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

[Raphaella DiContini]

I did the same, my comment is still being held up for moderation. 

My comment is: 
"And here I was hoping that the complete falicy that they ever served rotten meat at feasts was finally going away…

Not. Helping. They never did this. Rotten meat makes people sick, they were intelligent enough to know this, and know how to preserve meat, or know enough to keep the animal alive until the meat was needed. 

Spices were by far more expensive than meat, and would not have been used in excess to cover up the flavor of tainted meat. There were laws in place that punished people for even selling day old pies, much less rotten foodstuffs."

In joyous service, 
Raffaella 

--- On Tue, 3/16/10, Laura C. Minnick <lcm at jeffnet.org> wrote:

> From: Laura C. Minnick <lcm at jeffnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Here we go again- that old rotten meat myth
> To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 12:42 PM
> Raphaella DiContini 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.
> > 
> > In joyous service, Raffaella   
> I left a comment. We'll see if they actually put it up.
> 
> 'Lainie
> 
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