# Mafia Reunion - Day One **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 7, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577 "2017-01-07T22:01:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 454
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/454 "2017-01-11T00:49:44Z")
> [@NAF1138](#): > > I was recently watching a documentary about Christopher Kimball recreating a Victorian era menu from the Boston cooking school. It was mentioned repeatedly that one of the hardest things about doing the recreation was that in the Victorian era some actions that were so common they didn’t need to be explained ike how to boil a valve’s head for mock turtle soup) were totally forgotten today. So the recipes have gigantic gaps of assumed knowledge where they didn’t feel they needed to spell out every single tiny detail of very very common activities. Much the way a moden cookbook would not explain how to measure flour. > > Why do I bring this up as people start Nit picking the rules? > > Hard to say. I might be going senile. So, humor me for a second. **Do Mafia/Wolves have a standard nightkill not actually specified in the rules?** --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577)._