[sudo-discuss] Michaelmas

[niki]

Faust!

I'll be here all day and am happy to help with this!

xo

Niki

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 3:33 AM, johanna faust <female.faust at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The bottom line:  Michælmas is today.
>
>
> If I can drum up the wherewithal, and I can walk well enough and stand for
> long enough, -- and I think this is likley -- I would like to cook the
> traditional Michælmas fare, and I was considering doing so up at the Room:
>  Goose, stuffed, and burgundy wine.  I like to get my geese from VerBrugge;
> they are not stringy.  I have in the past made Michælmas soap from the
> tallow, which gave me great satisfaction, as you can imagine.
>
>
> I will do all the cooking, and understand that if this happens, there must
> also be cleaning after.
>
>
> I am an excellent cook.
>
>
> What say ye?
>
>
> Goose and burgundy wine. A welcome tradition set in motion by Elizabeth I
> in gratitude and sweet relief at the sinking of the ships of the Spanish
> Armada in a freak storm.  Much like declaring one should eat hot dogs on
> the Fourth of july, except the Fourth didn't exist and Michaelmas already
> did.
>
>
> From page 178 of the Western Antiquary:
>
>
> The popular tradition is that Queen Elizabeth, on her way to Tilbury Fort
> (September 29th, 1588), dined at the ancient seat of Sir Neville
> Umfreyville, where, among other things, two fine geese were provided for
> dinner. The queen, having eaten heartily, called for a bumper of Burgundy;
> and gave as a toast, “Destruction to the Spanish Armada!” Scarcely had she
> spoken when a messenger announced the destruction of the fleet by a storm.
> The queen demanded a second bumper, and said, “Henceforth shall a goose
> commemorate this great victory.” This tale is marred by the awkward
> circumstance that the thanksgiving sermon for the victory was preached at
> St. Paul's on the 20th August, and the fleet was dispersed by the winds in
> July. Gascoigne, who died 1577, refers to the custom of goose-eating at
> Michaelmas as common.
>
>
> At Christmas a capon, at Michaelmas a goose,
>
> And somewhat else at New Yere's tide, for feare the lease flies loose.
>
>
>
> Most likely, had it not been for that storm, we would have been
> 'colonized' by Spain.  Neither is one overlord æquall to another, nor was
> Spain nearly as cool four hundred years ago as today.  The nice people who
> brought us such delights as Jesuits and the Inquisition, also did a worse
> number upon the Indians,  although I am sure that can be debated.
>
>
> Nevertheless, i have, on the right half of my brain if you will, rather
> cultivated an affinity for any enemy of the Inquisition.
>
>
> According to the syncretic hands-on Christianity that doesn't suck like so
> much of Western thought so often does, the Archangel Michæl protects us.
> Sometimes from ourselves.  Often from each other.  Always, from Evil,
> though it go, even in your heart and mine, by many names.
>
>
> (& almost always before it becomes an issue, from the
> not-specifically-too-good, that goes around from time to time.  It pays to
> pay attention to the warnings.  Almost always one will be sent a video, or
> brochure, or hear a kind voice over the public address system, well in
> advance of being put in harms way.)
>
>
>
> I should know by one or two.  Please drop a line if interested.
>
>
> Donations gladly , happily accepted.
>
>
>
> ff
>
>
>
> --
>
> *Be seeing you.*
>
>
> ​I should know by one or two.​
>
>
> Donations gladly
> ​, happily​
> accepted;
> --
> *Be seeing you.*
>
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