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Corn and beans? Pfft! Those are not British! Neither are pumpkins. As to pumpkins, They're all the more glaring to me, because I'm extremely allergic to them, and so I'm trained to notice them in real life, which bleeds over into fiction, so it's good to know I'm not the only one going "pumpkins, WTF?" Pumpkin juice especially. Pumpkins are starchy, and starchy things do not make good juice. And they aren't exactly sweet or tart. The taste would be kind of bland.
For food more generally, especially since we see a lot of it out of season, I assumed that because it looks like the Wizarding world is very small and most of it works for the Ministry (I'm basing this on class size and the number of witches and wizards we see) that either British taxes go to pay for the Ministry, and that money is used to buy food and other raw materials, which is sold to Wizarding store owners for Galleons, which are used to pay Ministry employees, which then buy the food and assorted other goods. Or that there's some kind of magical theft going on of muggle resources that nobody talks about, and muggles don't notice because it's small scale. Hey, when authors don't explain how the characters get food, I'm free to make up my own explanation.
As to the robes, I bet that when Europe colonized much of the rest of the world, the European Wizarding culture did its best to undermine the local Wizarding groups, and thus the countries where people dress in mostly Westernized clothes today probably wear robes. I like the grass skirt image better.
I'd forgotten about the horse! External to the story, I suspect that Brian Jacques didn't have all the worldbuilding worked out yet in Redwall, and so things like the horse are remnants of that. The story nut in me is already starting to wonder if instead of there being humans, there are talking horses and other large animals out there, who have somehow overcome their lack of opposable thumbs much like the rodents to become picturesque farmers. Maybe the abbey has a milk buying agreement? Neither theft nor this would work though, as much was made during sieges of the Abbey's self sufficiency.
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Date: 2012-08-26 04:41 pm (UTC)Corn and beans? Pfft! Those are not British! Neither are pumpkins. As to pumpkins, They're all the more glaring to me, because I'm extremely allergic to them, and so I'm trained to notice them in real life, which bleeds over into fiction, so it's good to know I'm not the only one going "pumpkins, WTF?" Pumpkin juice especially. Pumpkins are starchy, and starchy things do not make good juice. And they aren't exactly sweet or tart. The taste would be kind of bland.
For food more generally, especially since we see a lot of it out of season, I assumed that because it looks like the Wizarding world is very small and most of it works for the Ministry (I'm basing this on class size and the number of witches and wizards we see) that either British taxes go to pay for the Ministry, and that money is used to buy food and other raw materials, which is sold to Wizarding store owners for Galleons, which are used to pay Ministry employees, which then buy the food and assorted other goods. Or that there's some kind of magical theft going on of muggle resources that nobody talks about, and muggles don't notice because it's small scale. Hey, when authors don't explain how the characters get food, I'm free to make up my own explanation.
As to the robes, I bet that when Europe colonized much of the rest of the world, the European Wizarding culture did its best to undermine the local Wizarding groups, and thus the countries where people dress in mostly Westernized clothes today probably wear robes. I like the grass skirt image better.
I'd forgotten about the horse! External to the story, I suspect that Brian Jacques didn't have all the worldbuilding worked out yet in Redwall, and so things like the horse are remnants of that. The story nut in me is already starting to wonder if instead of there being humans, there are talking horses and other large animals out there, who have somehow overcome their lack of opposable thumbs much like the rodents to become picturesque farmers. Maybe the abbey has a milk buying agreement? Neither theft nor this would work though, as much was made during sieges of the Abbey's self sufficiency.