[Sca-cooks] SCA Pinterest Board

[Saint Phlip]

Why be disturbed by it? As we have seen many times before, idiots can
promulgate their crap faster than the rest of us can keep up with us,
simply because instead of studying, these folks spend their time gossiping
and magnifying their errors.

Instead, if you want to deal with it, collect a variety of errors, and docs
to correct them, and present them to the BoD as something idiotic that
could get them sued. Sanity will not cause the BoD to take action, but the
threat of a lawsuit wi have them running in circles. Might give them
something to do besides screw with the Chirurgeonate.


On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 4:07 PM, <lilinah at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Today i discovered the SCA's very own Pinterest boards, operated by
> official SCA Social Media people. Besides linking Mamluk stuff as Persian
> (argh, argh, argh! The Mamluks ruled Egypt and the Levant and were not of
> Persian origin) i found the following:
>
> "The wealthier families of the 1500s had plates made of pewter. Food with
> high acid content caused some of the lead from these plates to leach out
> onto the food, causing lead poisoning and sometimes death. This poisoning
> happened most frequently with tomatoes. So, for approximately the next 400
> years, most people considered tomatoes to be poisonous."
> [http://www.pinterest.com/scasocial/medieval-life-food/]
>
> I confess that i added a comment with a link to Johnna's article about
> tomatoes in 16th c. Spain and Italy, which Stefan has on the Florilegium.
> (Thank you, Stefan and Johnna)
>
> There is also this:
> "For those of you who have read the books to a Game of Thrones you know
> that the food is described in a ridiculous amount of detail... Here are the
> recipes! Also, if you enjoy recreating medieval style recipes here is
> something close."
> [http://www.pinterest.com/scasocial/as-culinary-arts/]
>
> I understand the concept of using the popularity of Game of Thrones to try
> to draw people to the SCA, but seriously, fire pods are not medieval.
>
> I found quite a few problems in other boards, too, including 18th c. art
> (!!) and pictures from Braun and Schneider's 19th c. costume books, a great
> deal of which were never historically accurate. There are plenty of areas
> in which my knowledge is limited or lacking, so i suspect there are more
> gaffes.
>
> Isn't the SCA supposed to be an educational organization focused pre-17th
> century, which would suggest to me that inaccurate food myths and 18th c.
> stuff shouldn't be promoted? Am i wrong to be disturbed by this?
>
> Urtatim
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