Oolite Bulletins

Captain Hesperus wrote:

My 'marsh-gas' problem is a little more complicated, since it tends to emanate from my Navigator! He blames the Goat Soup cuisine, but it never seems to affect the rest of the crew in that manner....

What is this Goat Soup thingy anyway? In RealLife™ we slaughtered a goat for Christmas (as for almost all big holidays), and it made delicious dishes! (Although soup was not on the menu. Try roasting it!)

They imported that tradition from certain parts of Old Earth. It was a vile, inch-thick fat, stinking country soup of goat meat (d'uh) and vegetables cooked in a large marmite and served with bread and wine.

Cmdr. Maegil wrote:

They imported that tradition from certain parts of Old Earth. It was a vile, inch-thick fat, stinking country soup of goat meat (d'uh) and vegetables cooked in a large marmite and served with bread and wine.

Oh yeah! There are these traditions that should have been buried and forgotten loooooong time ago. Why it's only these that almost certainly survive?

The most amazing thing is that, as gin & tonic, it apparently was created in paralell by several cultures...