[Sca-cooks] "period Nazis" in the Land of Lincoln (George Lincoln Rockwell Inclusive?)
Daniel & Elizabeth Phelps
dephelps at embarqmail.com
Tue Mar 16 14:01:15 PDT 2010
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
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
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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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