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Wierd menus?
Apr. 6th, 2006 12:57 pmI was thinking about 'what constitutes wierd period food' again today. Once upon a time, we did a feast like this:
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and an arts person, wife of a squire, complained later about wierd feasts with pickled beets in them. Now, this feast was as innocuous as we thought we could manage, since we were feeding a crowd that a) had been burned the year before with the all-pork feast and b) were traditionally anti-period-food.
Now, for my money, there are a number of factors that seem to govern what people think is wierd. One is their personal characteristics. Fighters seem to be, in the aggregate, less adventurous eaters; I'm not sure why. Also, people from PA seem to be more adventurous than people from New Jersey, again, I'm not sure why. I've noticed that if I'm feeding people whose normal mode of food is what I call 'Dutchie'-- gloppy food, sweet and sour, lots of dishes-- they seem to be more open to period food as served family-style.
Some people are freaked out by pickling stuff, unusual vegetables, sweet foods that are 'normally' savory in American cuisine. Some of them are actually anti-soup or anti-stew. (Ok, I don't understand that. Two small girls I'm around also won't eat soup or stew, and I am completely wierded out by it, and don't understand how they get away with it...) Glop is not good for them. This may be the American finger food tradition.
What's going on here?
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and an arts person, wife of a squire, complained later about wierd feasts with pickled beets in them. Now, this feast was as innocuous as we thought we could manage, since we were feeding a crowd that a) had been burned the year before with the all-pork feast and b) were traditionally anti-period-food.
Now, for my money, there are a number of factors that seem to govern what people think is wierd. One is their personal characteristics. Fighters seem to be, in the aggregate, less adventurous eaters; I'm not sure why. Also, people from PA seem to be more adventurous than people from New Jersey, again, I'm not sure why. I've noticed that if I'm feeding people whose normal mode of food is what I call 'Dutchie'-- gloppy food, sweet and sour, lots of dishes-- they seem to be more open to period food as served family-style.
Some people are freaked out by pickling stuff, unusual vegetables, sweet foods that are 'normally' savory in American cuisine. Some of them are actually anti-soup or anti-stew. (Ok, I don't understand that. Two small girls I'm around also won't eat soup or stew, and I am completely wierded out by it, and don't understand how they get away with it...) Glop is not good for them. This may be the American finger food tradition.
What's going on here?
