[Sca-cooks] Chocolate Bacon

[David Friedman]

I just had an interesting exchange on FaceBook. It started when someone 
posted about her chocolate covered rasberries at Pennsic, went on to 
chocolate covered bacon. I suggested that perhaps such were more 
appropriate to Burning Man and mentioned Icelandic Chicken as a good 
period use of bacon.

Someone responded that chocolate bacon was period. My first assumption 
was that she was joking, but it rapidly became clear that she was not. A 
cooking laurel had made it at an event, so she assumed it must be 
period, said she would ask him to explain. Eventually he came on, 
somewhat apologetically, explained the circumstances in which he had 
served bacon dipped in chocolate, pretty clearly assuming that everyone 
knew it wasn't period.

Which is, I think, a useful lesson on the dangers of doing out of period 
jokes on the assumption that people will realize they are out of period 
and so not be misled.

-- 
David/Cariadoc
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