[Sca-cooks] What's the right cheese for an interrogation?

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

Not unthinkable. But bear in mind too that this had a religious component - 
 presumably part of the test was Divine judgment revealing a  liar.

Apparently this test is pretty well-known in the history of lie  detectors.

"A variation of this test was used during the Inquisition. The  suspect had 
to swallow a "trial slice"
of bread and cheese; if it stuck in  the suspect's palate or throat "
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/39/7/766/


"A piece of barley bread and a piece of cheese were laid upon the  altar, 
and the accused priest, in his full canonicals, and surrounded by all the  
pompous adjuncts of Roman ceremony, pronounced certain conjurations, and 
prayed  with great fervency for several minutes. The burden of the prayer was, 
that if  he were guilty of the crime laid to his charge, God would send his 
angel Gabriel  to stop his throat, and he might not be able to swallow the b
read and cheese.  There is no instance upon record of a priest having been 
choked in this  manner.
"An ordeal very like this is still practiced in India. Consecrated  rice is 
the article chosen, instead of bread and cheese. Instances are not rare  in 
which, through the force of imagination, guilty persons are not able to  
swallow a single grain."

A history of lie detection
PV Trovillo -  Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1931-1951), 1939 -  
JSTOR
http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=284
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Jim  Chevallier

Comparing early and late medieval food in  France
http://www.chezjim.com/food/pre-v/comparisons.html

In a message  dated 7/3/2013 5:48:34 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, 
jarukcomp at yahoo.com  writes:
I suspect its use as an ordeal may be connected to the difficulty of  
producing saliva if you are terrified.