"Every cook in the SCA should be ready to give out a list of the ingredients in their dishes-- and every person in the SCA with allergies and reactions should be aware of what to look for."
And yet, when I was a first lieutenant on a feast, my job was to field the allergy questions. We had a grand total of two people come up and ask to see an ingredient list prior to feast. I can add one more if you count that our kingdom always publishes a list of TRMs food allergies, so we knew His Majesty would need Onion-free portions of things. Instead, what we got was questions as the food was being served, and than announce we didn't have lot of extra portions of the serving without X in it.
As someone with a serious histamine reaction myself (Nettle bad) I always ask before I eat, drink, or try the use of anything. Sometimes, I ask twice (particularly with imbibing brewers and vinters). I am continually amazed at the attitude of people in general, SCA and not, that their health is everyone else's concern and proper forethought was taken for these hitherto unknown conditions. When I was a camp counselor, we constantly had parents whose children had anaphylaxsis inducing allergies send their children WITHOUT an Epi-pen, because without asking, they assumed we had tons (we had 4 on site that year....I assume my howling to management fixed that for the next year). I assumed this was based on our taking over care and feeding of their children. However, at my first GW, I met adults who had left theirs at home, or buried somewhere at camp, on the assumption that the Chirugeonate had them. This gives me serious concerns for the future of humanity, if not the SCA
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And yet, when I was a first lieutenant on a feast, my job was to field the allergy questions. We had a grand total of two people come up and ask to see an ingredient list prior to feast. I can add one more if you count that our kingdom always publishes a list of TRMs food allergies, so we knew His Majesty would need Onion-free portions of things. Instead, what we got was questions as the food was being served, and than announce we didn't have lot of extra portions of the serving without X in it.
As someone with a serious histamine reaction myself (Nettle bad) I always ask before I eat, drink, or try the use of anything. Sometimes, I ask twice (particularly with imbibing brewers and vinters). I am continually amazed at the attitude of people in general, SCA and not, that their health is everyone else's concern and proper forethought was taken for these hitherto unknown conditions. When I was a camp counselor, we constantly had parents whose children had anaphylaxsis inducing allergies send their children WITHOUT an Epi-pen, because without asking, they assumed we had tons (we had 4 on site that year....I assume my howling to management fixed that for the next year). I assumed this was based on our taking over care and feeding of their children. However, at my first GW, I met adults who had left theirs at home, or buried somewhere at camp, on the assumption that the Chirugeonate had them. This gives me serious concerns for the future of humanity, if not the SCA