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fandomhigh2022-08-19 03:57 am
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ACTUAL Ancient Food Crimes; Friday, First Period [08/19[.
"Morning, everyone!" Summer greeted everyone brightly from the front of the classroom yet again. "And congratulations for making it this far! Granted, we did kind of start with a bang and it's hard to make anything else look so bad once you've had maggot cheese, but hopefully, you learned a few things along the way, even if that thing is that people will pretty much eat almost anything in certain contexts. And our last featured potential ancient food crime does, in fact, come with a whole heap of context.
"Today, we're going to be trying beaver tails. No, not the Canadian pastry, although I did bring some of that along for you all to enjoy as well, but, no, actual tails of beaver, which was pretty popular as a Lenten substitution for meat from medieval times to probably right around the nineteenth century.
"You see," Summer continued, because, lol, this actually was a class, actually, "for a little context, especially for those of you not from around here, there's a period of time in the Christian religion where you're supposed to abstain from a lot of things, including eating meat. But it was decided that fish did not actually count as meat...in some of my research, the logic went that any creature that could have survived the time when God flooded the whole Earth without having to get aboard Noah's big giant species-saving Love Boat was fair game. So mammals like beavers and even capybaras were fair game, and, you know, if you look at a beaver tail, it's sort of textured like scales on a fish, it's sort of shaped like a fish, so pretty much a fish, right? So let's cook it up like a fish, because if there's one thing ardent faithful people love, it's a loophole!
"Beaver tails weren't the only Lenten loopholes, though. Rats, lizards, and unborn baby rabbits also seemed pretty popular, but this one definitely seemed the most interesting to try and, honestly, if you ask me? The most ridiculous but also oddly clever one? Anyway, we've also got some cock ale to wash it down with, because when you have the chance to serve people beer that's had a boiled rooster stewing in it for a month or so, you take it."
"Today, we're going to be trying beaver tails. No, not the Canadian pastry, although I did bring some of that along for you all to enjoy as well, but, no, actual tails of beaver, which was pretty popular as a Lenten substitution for meat from medieval times to probably right around the nineteenth century.
"You see," Summer continued, because, lol, this actually was a class, actually, "for a little context, especially for those of you not from around here, there's a period of time in the Christian religion where you're supposed to abstain from a lot of things, including eating meat. But it was decided that fish did not actually count as meat...in some of my research, the logic went that any creature that could have survived the time when God flooded the whole Earth without having to get aboard Noah's big giant species-saving Love Boat was fair game. So mammals like beavers and even capybaras were fair game, and, you know, if you look at a beaver tail, it's sort of textured like scales on a fish, it's sort of shaped like a fish, so pretty much a fish, right? So let's cook it up like a fish, because if there's one thing ardent faithful people love, it's a loophole!
"Beaver tails weren't the only Lenten loopholes, though. Rats, lizards, and unborn baby rabbits also seemed pretty popular, but this one definitely seemed the most interesting to try and, honestly, if you ask me? The most ridiculous but also oddly clever one? Anyway, we've also got some cock ale to wash it down with, because when you have the chance to serve people beer that's had a boiled rooster stewing in it for a month or so, you take it."
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Listen to the Lecture - ACTUAL Ancient Food Crimes, 08/19.
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She was trying to focus, even if she wasn’t going to be sampling the food today but she was finding it difficult to concentrate.
Eat Food and Discuss! - ACTUAL Ancient Food Crimes, 08/19.
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Not bad, he figured. Though having also tried the pastry he found he vastly preferred that
because it was food truck food and thus superior.Re: Eat Food and Discuss! - ACTUAL Ancient Food Crimes, 08/19.
It wasn’t really that much of a surprise Goose, you thought maggot cheese was good as well.
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this can't even be typed with a straight face omgbut it was just meat. Meat that wasn't trying to get into any desserts. That was fine.And it was fine to eat, as well.
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They'd just eaten a lot of fish on Fridays. Steve looked a little dubious about it, but ate the beaver
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snicker, but, like Stark, he figured it was just meat, so he would give it a try....and then he would make a beeline for the pastries, because sugar was clearly superior.
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OMG, and he had actually never had it beforesnicker, so he was happy to get to try it.He was skeptical of the cock ale; if you put too much meat in beer, it just ended up muddy-tasting, but he would try it.
Talk to the Teacher - ACTUAL Ancient Food Crimes, 08/19.
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