Another thing you have to think of is taking into account people's allergies--and you are very good at doing that.

And yes, people may not have drank the syrup drinks that we do, but we can't serve beer or mead--or at least not bought with SCA funds. Another practicality that our ancestors didn't have to consider.

And yes, that hunter's stew should have been complained about. Also the chocolate volcano cakes that were served as a desert at the same feast.