[MR] Well, we could pare down the feast, for one thing.

[Brynjolf]

I'm of the opposite opinion. Feasts are one of the reasons I joined the SCA,
and after five years, they are still the highlight of most events for me.
I find my Dream at a well set table with good friends enjoying good food and
good wine. Lengthy removes add to that enjoyment. I'm happy sitting at a
feast table for four hours or more, and would be disappointed if everything
was served all at once in the mundane style.
Again, just an opinion. I could see how folks who didn't feel this way would
be bored to tears by the fifth remove, but big feasts are such an integral
part of how we play the game...

-Brynjolf

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Gina Shelley <paintedwheel at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> I hate most feasts. There. I said it.
>
>
>
> That in no way take anything from the feastcrat or the staff. Usually, the
> food is pretty good. I just don't want to sit all bloody night to get it. So
> I guess I should rephrase this: I hate the way we usually SERVE feast.
>
>
>
> My two favorite feasts from last year:
>
>
>
> Twelfth Night. Just a big table full of food and we get to eat when we are
> hungry. Something runs out, oh well. There's plenty else.
>
>
>
> Midwinter's Tale: If I am thinking of the right event, it was a bowl of
> nice stew and some bread and butter. Since it was so cold and wet and dark
> outside, that really hit the spot.
>
>
>
> I personally do not like sitting through remove after remove after endless
> for God sake make it stop remove. I get bored out of my skull and start
> playing with the candles. I come home from events with minor burns on my
> skin and wax in my hair. I almost set Ivar's pants on fire at Birthday.
>
>
>
> We could just eat, clean up, and do some dancing or something, rather than
> sitting there lighting ourselves on fire. The meal feels like a series of
> really unsatisfying snacks instead of a good filling meal. I got low sugar
> and a short attention span, the only reason I don't usually bring my own
> supper like I used to anymore is because I am old and crotchety now and
> don't feel like adding one more thing to have to mess with just to go to an
> event.
>
>
>
> My eating at feast has less to do with any glad anticipation on my part and
> more to do with my own laziness. I am just saying.
>
>
>
> And anyone who cleans up after feast can tell you how much food goes to
> waste. It would be a better meal and less work and expense to make a few
> good, filling offerings that will get eaten than a dozen or more that won't.
> We spend way too much time and money on all this food that ends up getting
> tossed.
>
>
>
> Just my unsolicited opinion,
>
> Dulcy
>
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