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

[Terry Decker]

Authoritarian but hardly accurate, I'd say.

Bear

> 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