I thought it was full of eels.

Dang it.

Next time I will click the link first.

Inconsolable



/Lord Baelish loves lamprey pie almost as much as he desires Cat pie.

probesport: The cheese is old and moldy. Where is the bathroom?


You're right, ese. She's not worth it.

I've never heard of a waterway polluted to the point that lampreys can't live in it. Even the Cuyahoga river in Cleveland (the one that farking caught fire) could support lampreys.

bubo_sibiricus: This story is incomplete without lamprey fingers.

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But the question is, if lampreys are in short supply in the Severn, what are they doing in Jolly Ol' that we're not doing in the Great Lakes to get reduce their numbers? Do they eat that many lampreys?

I think we have better taste in what we consider "food" in Michigan and the surrounding states.

/Except Ohio... They'll eat anything, the filthy beggars.

Skr: I don't think I could eat a food that was screeching at me.

I love to hear the screeching. It's almost as beautiful as the sound of a stripper crying.

I won't deny that the borders are probably roughly 50/50, but Canada does not 'own' the Great Lakes, Daily Fail morons...

Nuclear Monk: On a serious note...eel pie...really? Are you supposed to eat it, or is it just for show?

This being England, a little from column A, and a little from column B.

Eel pie is no doubt delicious (if you like fish) but the ceremonial eel pie sent to the Monarch would have to be packed in straw in a barrel or crate, and might take weeks to arrive. It probably was big and brown and delicious looking but totally inedible, with a crust on it that would be thicker and stronger than the walls of the average house. Architectural pies are an English speciality. They delight in dishes that can be re-used. Many of these were rented, put on the table, and then removed without being touched. The same roast of beef might do a round of middle class dinner parties, being "served" by a circle of friends. They weren't fooling anybody but themselves, but that's custom for you. Wedding cakes are a remnant of the archetectural and inedible school of cooking. You can still rent a big cake and have a smaller cake on the side for guests to actually eat or take home.

In other words, it would be largely for show, like those plastic meals that Japanese and Korean restaurants place out front to show potential customers their wares. Monarchs seldom see the gifts that their subjects give them unless they are superb and extravagant, and edibles would be desplayed and tossed. Some of the more durable edibles, such as wines or preserves might actually be used, but most likely not by the recepient. Inadvertantly poisoning royalty is as fatal as doing it intentionally, so this system protects both donor and recepient, while keeping up the symbolic link which in medieval times would have been real.

To fed a Court in medieval or early modern times, it had to be mobile, moving from county to county, because it would use up fuel, food, horses, etc., if it stayed in one place and transportation did not permit bringing in heavy supplies from elsewhere.

Moving also gave the servants time to rebuild, de-muck, de-louse, wash the linens, etc. Noble households might do laundry once a year. They had a lot of laundry to do by then, and bashing the stuff on rocks in the river and hanging it on trees and shrubs to air and bleach in the Sun was still the preferred method even for royal and noble households well into early modern times.

Today we mostly air duvets and carpets this way. The invention of the washboard was a big step towards the mechanization and domestication of laundry. Things got so bad that middle class housewives had to do their own laundry. At least, you didn't have to carry the stuff to the river any more, which was just as well, given the state of the rivers once the population got over a couple or three million. By then the wood was gone and you had to boil the water over coal. Eventually somebody got the idea of putting the coal IN the boiler and the English became the first people to have domestic IEDs that still didn't heat water even when they exploded.

genner: Nuclear Monk: On a serious note...eel pie...really? Are you supposed to eat it, or is it just for show?

It's not really eels that would be gross it's made with lampreys.

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apparently the reason these things are endangered is because the British regard them much the same way the rest of the world regards "Chliean Sea bass"-too delicious for its own good. Apparently eels and lampreys are MAJOR delicacies in Britian, but I take the "Jules" position on them : they may taste like Pumpkin pie but I'll never know because I refuse to eat the filthy motherfarkers