Flour making

[dickon]

Don't even start me on that!!Our re-enactment group have a small ceramic bread oven and watching the public trying to get their heads around how that works is almost as funny as watching them try and get their heads round cooking on an open fire.common reaction"are you going to eat that?"-"NO we're goinng to throw this lovely hand-cooked medieval food away and go to Mc cr**pys".
They do have a working Quern at Rydale folk museum but we've never played with it (they also had long stemmed wheat but not when we were there with sickles!

[Eigon]

Hmmm. "Is that a real fire?"
It can be scary to see just how ignorant a Member of the Public can be.

[Ellendra]

How about "They didn't have metal in those days, it hadn't been invented yet!"

"Why can't you just make leather WITHOUT skinning some poor animal?"

"I don't like wool because some sheep died to give you that sweater!"

"Wild raspberries are poisonous, only the ones in the store are safe"

"I didn't know walnuts grew on a tree."

"You mean an apple tree really grows apples???"

I worked at the local Ren Faire one summer, I heard some doozies, and some of the other carnies shared stories. You wonder how people can tie their own shoes sometimes.

[dickon]

to be honest, my personal faovourite was "I know thay had chickens then,but did thay have eggs?" to which the reply was "well isn't that the eternal question" followed by much guffawing into sleeves

[Ellendra]

Ooo, I like that one!

[Eigon]

I think the best Daft Member of the Public story happened before I joined the group, but has gone down in legend.
A father was taking his young son round the living history encampment, and stopped by the campfire.
"That's not a real fire," he said confidently - and thrust his hand into the flames!!
On arriving at the St John's Ambulance tent and explaining what had happened, he was told: "Those aren't real blisters then," and they refused to treat him!