[Sca-cooks] snails and puppy dog tails...

[V O]

Oh, I love Calvin and Hobbes!  And your very right about some glop being served, 
it could reach out and strangle anyone.

One way to get around it is to list things like Blancmong as almond and rice 
pudding, then surprise them with the chicken in it, or Macros as mac and 
cheese.   People will eat fried cheese but tell them it is pipefarce and they 
will look at you sideways.  Sometimes you have to sneek it in on them and then 
when they say its good/great/best they ever had, then you tell them it is all 
period foods and guess what, you liked it.  


Mirianna


----- Original Message ----
From: "lcm at jeffnet.org" <lcm at jeffnet.org>
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thu, January 27, 2011 10:48:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] snails and puppy dog tails...

I
wonder if some reverse psychology would work here? I couldn't get my
kids to eat stuffed peppers until I saw Calvin's mom in Calvin and
Hobbes do it by telling Calvin that they were Stewed Monkey Heads.
Calvin had great fun pulling the 'brains' out, and it was his dad
that was yelling "But I thought you said we were having stuffed
peppers?"
It worked. Monkey Heads were actually quite popular at our house.
On the other hand, a lot of medieval food looks a lot like the glop
that is always trying to strangle Calvin...
Liutgard, suddenly hungry for Monkey Heads, but the oven is on the
blink. :-P
On Thu 01/27/11  9:35 AM , "jamie brown" fairegirl2001 at yahoo.com
sent:
It is the balance that I think makes a succesful feast.  Like when
introducing our children to new foods, if most of the ingredients are
familiar they will normally like it.  When I cook a feast I try to
incorporate enough of the usual with one or two unfamiliar dishes.  I
also agree it is most dependant on the talent of the cook.  I wont
forget being served raw chicken at a feast.  Roasted chicken is a
very familiar food but it was prepared exactly wrong.  I also think
if you have a good repuation the populace is more likely to try and
like the unusual you ask them to try.                      Merraede
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