Almost Medieval

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Here's what my work canteen laid on for St Geo's day:

Cawdel of Muskels (Spiced Mussel & Leek Broth) - 48p

Lange Wortys De Chare (Beef & Vegetable Pottage) - £1.90 (this looked unspeakable btw)
Capon in Salome (Chicken in 3 Colour Sauce) - £1.90
Egerdouche de Wortys In Paste (St. George's Dragon Pie) - £1.50

Medieval Mash - 52p (no details on why this was medieval)
Buttered Vegetables - 42p
Peas with Onions - 42p

Crustard Lumbard in Paste (Rich Custard Pie with Dates and Prunes) - 65p

― Tom, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it all does sound very horrible but you are correct, it reads like a passage from Sir Gawain. am v. concerned about the number of Wortys in there, and i thought dragons were an ENDANGERED SPECIES??

― katie, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like it that the parenthetical explanations of "what it really is" implies that you could have had some pie with REAL dragon in it. I bet it tastes like chicken.

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sadly dragon pie is vegetarian. However I think Tom's canteen is the best place in the world evah.

― Emma, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

also "Capon" is my favourite word evah for fowl. apart from maybe "pullet".

― katie, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's the tiny problem of the food, Emma. They've got what to call it down to a T though.

― Tom, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Details details Tom.

Katie I believe a capon is a boy chicken that has had something unpleasant done to it, in fact I am not sure if farmers are allowed to caponise (? caponify? whatEVAH) chickens any more.

Best word relating to chickens = spatchcock hee hee.

― Emma, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It is in fact a castrated male chicken. It would make a good insulting word for chaps perhaps.

― Emma, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Where is the GRUEL?

― Nicole, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

where is the SALMAGUNDY?

was the medieval mash POTATO? cuz er hmmm unless st brandon brought it back from peru...

― mark s, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Was surely RUTABAGA!

― RickyT, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Where is the HUMAN LEAGUE reference?

― Andy K, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

LIVER AND ONIONS in our canteen.

st georges day is a grim day for all concerned.

― nickie, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The med. mash looked potato-esque but as Mark S said surely could not have been.

― Tom, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maybe it was regular mashed potato but with a medieval twist e.g. it gives you the plague.

― Emma, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hang on, does Medieval necc. imply European? Cos otherwise it could quite happily be Incan med. mash.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

well Rickyt is was for St George patron saint of ENGLAND, even though he probably didnt originally come from england. s'probably safe to assume that he didn't come from America either though...

― katie, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Good point, Ms G. I think he was North African. No dragons either of course, just yer standard martyr.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

when you get pies with liquor what is the liquor? when i first came to london towne i was told that it was eel juice but i asked our canteen manager at lunchtime and he informed me that it is, in fact, some sort of tasteless, pointless mixture of barley and water. now can someeone please tell me WHAT'S GOING ON?

― nickie, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think liquor = garbage water nickie though as far as i am aware it should be some kind of eel juice *shudders*. or praps just the leftover juice of whatever it is you happen to be making? hm i dunno i just call it JUICE and be done with it.

― katie, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

or "jus" if one is being poncey hehe :)

― katie, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Did you have to pay in groats or merks?

― Billy Dods, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i would say that tasting it is the only way to find out, katie, but i'm not going near it...

― nickie, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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