[Sca-cooks] "period Nazis" in the Land of Lincoln (George Lincoln Rockwell Inclusive?)

[Daniel & Elizabeth Phelps]

Hmmmm well it was in a Chicago paper and every since the "Blues Brothers" 
they have had something of a thing about strange Nazis in Illinois.

Daniel

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administering medicine to the dead.
Thomas Paine
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius1 at verizon.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Here we go again- that old rotten meat myth



On Mar 16, 2010, at 3:15 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.

My comment is awaiting moderation. Perhaps I am not sufficiently moderate. 
We'll see...

> The reference to “period Nazis” is utter nonsense. It is an unfortunate 
> reality of life that human nature prompts some people to attempt to 
> aggressively sway others on how they should live their lives, what they 
> should believe, politically, religiously, in their support for a sports 
> franchise, or anything else. In this case, it is a strong belief that 
> there is only one correct way to play a game. What should be remembered is 
> that such people are simply rude and overbearing, and there is exactly the 
> same percentage of such people in the SCA as there is outside of the SCA — 
> if not fewer.

Adamantius






"Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls, when we 
all ought to worry about our own souls, and other people's bellies."
-- Rabbi Israel Salanter

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