A wise chef once told me, watch the pennies and the dollars save themselves. I think a kingdom is the same way. If the baronies are broken, the kingdom will be broken.
Personally, who ever thinks that serving food for 900 should acceptable, they should be drawn and quartered. In a restaurant, that would be like changing over a large dinning room 3 times. And unless you have pros running your kitchen, you aren't going to be able to manage that. Hell... I wouldn't be able to manage that and I may have run a busy professional dinner shift.
I am very much an exception as I jumped in both feet forward. My first foray into politics was at the kingdom level. I kind of skipped the baronial level all together for a while there.I would be the wrong person to tell you about the glorious eastern tradition because every time I think I have handle on them, there are 15 million exceptions. Be then again, our curia is law and we (as far as I know) are very much a kingdom of law.
Believe you me, I'm not suggesting anybody sit a feast for 900. What I don't get is why they can't offer a feast and sit 150-200.
Though NOW the event is so huge, the County Health Dept has stepped in and regulates food distribution on site. So maybe they really couldn't.
The argument has been that you have to offer Feast for something like 1/3-1/2 of the attendees for an event - and Val Day draws 1200, easy.
It's gone from a BIG A&S event with a feast, ball, fashion show, and A&S display to a melee event with A&S shoved into a corner and a "dessert revel." This, frankly, is the Kingdom in microcosm.
It's said that the West Kingdom are the People of the Book. The SCA is based there, and they take Corpora more seriously than elsewhere.
The East Kingdom are the People of the Word. The Word of the King (or Curia or Council of Dukes - depending on who you ask) is Law.
And the Middle Kingdom - are People Who Bow to Furniture. Which is both a tongue in cheek slap at the fact that we are to acknowledge the Royal Presence symbolized by the thrones - whether anyone is on them or not, and also a shot at the fact that once something is a Custom here, we will continue to do it no matter how dumb it makes us look from the outside. See also - Silver Squire chains and silver embattled coronets for the Vicomital Rank.
Re: a Kingdom of Law...femkederoasJuly 17 2011, 22:12:59 UTC
There is something to be said for collective bargaining power.
I think the issue is just trying to get a crowbar in the right place to shift assumption and paths of thoughts that just run this way out of sheer inertia. This is a huge Kingdom, and it is just entrenched in its ways for no good reason other than because it's always been that way.
Re: a Kingdom of Law...femkederoasJuly 18 2011, 15:17:36 UTC
Well, something has to give around here. Because if it stops being fun.... we'll probably wander off and find something else to do. And the way things are running right now - it's starting to be "not fun."
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Personally, who ever thinks that serving food for 900 should acceptable, they should be drawn and quartered. In a restaurant, that would be like changing over a large dinning room 3 times. And unless you have pros running your kitchen, you aren't going to be able to manage that. Hell... I wouldn't be able to manage that and I may have run a busy professional dinner shift.
I am very much an exception as I jumped in both feet forward. My first foray into politics was at the kingdom level. I kind of skipped the baronial level all together for a while there.I would be the wrong person to tell you about the glorious eastern tradition because every time I think I have handle on them, there are 15 million exceptions. Be then again, our curia is law and we (as far as I know) are very much a kingdom of law.
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Though NOW the event is so huge, the County Health Dept has stepped in and regulates food distribution on site. So maybe they really couldn't.
The argument has been that you have to offer Feast for something like 1/3-1/2 of the attendees for an event - and Val Day draws 1200, easy.
It's gone from a BIG A&S event with a feast, ball, fashion show, and A&S display to a melee event with A&S shoved into a corner and a "dessert revel." This, frankly, is the Kingdom in microcosm.
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It's said that the West Kingdom are the People of the Book. The SCA is based there, and they take Corpora more seriously than elsewhere.
The East Kingdom are the People of the Word. The Word of the King (or Curia or Council of Dukes - depending on who you ask) is Law.
And the Middle Kingdom - are People Who Bow to Furniture. Which is both a tongue in cheek slap at the fact that we are to acknowledge the Royal Presence symbolized by the thrones - whether anyone is on them or not, and also a shot at the fact that once something is a Custom here, we will continue to do it no matter how dumb it makes us look from the outside. See also - Silver Squire chains and silver embattled coronets for the Vicomital Rank.
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I think the issue is just trying to get a crowbar in the right place to shift assumption and paths of thoughts that just run this way out of sheer inertia. This is a huge Kingdom, and it is just entrenched in its ways for no good reason other than because it's always been that way.
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