On 6/30/06, Jon Lincicum <lincicum at comcast.net> wrote: > Davdi Silverrock wrote: > > On 6/29/06, Maria Manemann <Markleaf at earthlink.net> wrote: > >> > * Far too much potato soup > >> > >> I believe both of these refer to "Phoenix". The former to when Vlad > >> is planning his assassination of the King; the later to his captivity > >> after he gets caught. > > > > Do you know, I think you may have entirely got it. > > > > I could have sworn there was a another reference to Vlad being held > > captive in the East which involved the potato soup, but after checking > > using Amazon, I seem to have imagined it. > Well, Vlad's meals when captive on Greenaere are pretty accounted for > (he lists them) and involve no mention of potato soup. Hm. Well, perhaps I am reading "The latest one, the remains of which were on a wooden plate on the floor next to me, involved boiled vegetables and a bit of fish" and interpolating that the boiled vegetables were mostly potatoes. > > So, potato soup is common in the east. Vlad has been to the east, which > is outside of the Empire. He's been imprisioned outside of the empire, > and that imprisonment resulted in far too much potato soup. It's not too > far a leap to imagine that this all might have happened in Fenario. There is also mention of a spicy potato soup at Valabar's. I suspect that if the potato soup had been prepared in the style of Ambrus and/or Valabar's, Vlad would not have thought of it as a bad thing.