From <@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU:owner-scouts-l@TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU> Fri Aug 15 17:56:43 1997 Return-Path: <@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU:owner-scouts-l@TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU> Received: from pucc.PRINCETON.EDU (smtpb@pucc.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.99]) by cap1.CapAccess.org (8.6.12/8.6.10) with SMTP id RAA22192; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 17:56:43 -0400 Received: from PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU by pucc.PRINCETON.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8131; Fri, 15 Aug 97 17:48:00 EDT Received: from TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (NJE origin MAILER@TCUBVM) by PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 7350; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 17:48:00 -0400 Received: from TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@TCUBVM) by TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 2977; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 16:31:16 -0500 Received: from TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU by TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (LISTSERV release 1.8b) with NJE id 2927 for SCOUTS-L@TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 16:30:29 -0500 Received: from TCUBVM (NJE origin SMTP@TCUBVM) by TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 2926; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 16:28:52 -0500 Received: from emout12.mail.aol.com by tcubvm.is.tcu.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Fri, 15 Aug 97 16:28:49 CDT Received: (from root@localhost) by emout12.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id RAA20358 for scouts-l@tcubvm.is.tcu.edu; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 17:27:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <970815172719_-703693464@emout12.mail.aol.com> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 17:27:32 -0400 Reply-To: Greg33@AOL.COM Sender: Scouts-L Youth Group List From: Greg Stewart Subject: Worst Meal???? Woodbadge!!!! To: Multiple recipients of list SCOUTS-L Status: RO X-Status: Ok. It probably was not the worst meal. But it was by far the most EMBARRASSING!!!! Our very confident beaver patrol wanted to have the best meal ever for the closing night feast. One of the patrol members had suggested baking a turkey in a charcoal and tin foil oven. He had done this once before. This is where you plant three pieces of steel rods into the ground, coil chicken wire around them. Put charcoal in the chicken wire. Hang the dressed bird from a wire attached to the top of the rods. Light the charcoal and cover the whole thing with tin foil. An awesome idea!!!!! (Use your imagination to picture it) He even had a chart showing bird weight vs number of charcoal briquets to use.......... As we built the thing, we as a confident-we-do-know-a-lot patrol decided that the above mentioned chart could not be possibly right and that if we followed it, the bird would never get done in time. So we doubled the number of briquets. As the bird cooked, the aroma filled the entire camp site. Many of the staffers wandered by and checked on our oven. They were intrigued with our ingenuity and stated that they could not wait to taste the product at the feast that night. Well, 30 minutes before dinner, we uncovered the oven to see how things were progressing. As you might imagine, the bird was BLACK. Not just campfire type fast-cooked black, but SOLID BLACK. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the bird was still luke warm-red inside. A disaster. An embarrassment to our patrol. We would never get our beads at this pace!!!!! Within minutes another genius thought sprang into our minds. Somewhere between the solid black and the luke warm red there had to be some just-right meat. So we literally chiseled away the black and dug out chunks of good meat, cutting off anything that looked undercooked. We then set these chunks of meat on a plate and took it to the feast. We told the staff we had to serve the bird in that manner because we had put secret seasonings on the meat. They were very cordial about it and did not embarrass us, even though it was obvious what had happened. (Safe haven at its best). And we burried the burnt and raw evidence just in case. This is still an exciting discussion topic at beaver reunions....................and no......none of us has ever tried it again. Greg in WA ............used to be a beaver...........WE1-611-91 Inland Northwest Council From <@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU:owner-scouts-l@TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU> Sat Aug 16 21:26:44 1997 Return-Path: <@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU:owner-scouts-l@TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU> Received: from pucc.PRINCETON.EDU (smtpb@pucc.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.99]) by cap1.CapAccess.org (8.6.12/8.6.10) with SMTP id VAA24482; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 21:26:44 -0400 Received: from PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU by pucc.PRINCETON.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 3477; Sat, 16 Aug 97 21:18:01 EDT Received: from TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (NJE origin MAILER@TCUBVM) by PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 8722; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 21:18:01 -0400 Received: from TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@TCUBVM) by TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 7604; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 20:21:35 -0500 Received: from TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU by TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (LISTSERV release 1.8b) with NJE id 7493 for SCOUTS-L@TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 20:20:23 -0500 Received: from TCUBVM (NJE origin SMTP@TCUBVM) by TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 7492; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 18:43:43 -0500 Received: from ALPHA.IS.TCU.EDU by tcubvm.is.tcu.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Sat, 16 Aug 97 18:43:36 CDT Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com) by ALPHA.IS.TCU.EDU (PMDF V5.0-5 #20456) id <01IMIN4M90FK000CD9@ALPHA.IS.TCU.EDU> for scouts-l@ALPHA.IS.TCU.EDU; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 18:42:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: from gslxsrv1.rose.hp.com (harline@gslxsrv1.rose.hp.com [15.8.150.200]) by palrel1.hp.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA28064 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 16:42:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by gslxsrv1.rose.hp.com (1.37.109.18/15.5+ECS 3.4 ) id AA071024933; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 16:42:13 -0700 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Mailer: Elm [revision: 72.14] Message-ID: <199708162342.AA071024933@gslxsrv1.rose.hp.com> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 16:42:13 -0700 Reply-To: Matt Harline Sender: Scouts-L Youth Group List From: Matt Harline Subject: Re: In Quest of the Worst Meal Ever X-To: scouts-l@tcu.edu To: Multiple recipients of list SCOUTS-L In-Reply-To: from "Bob Costello" at Aug 11, 97 7:13 am Status: RO X-Status: Can you stand another one? I hope you aren't eating or getting ready to eat while you read this. This one comes from my youth... probably about 1970 or so. Our troop was at a district camporee at a ranch near the top of Mount Hamilton, just east of San Jose, California. The ranch was normally used as grazing land for cattle, and apparently had very recently been used for that purpose. We arrived on Friday night, and as will often happen, we were slow to get to camp and set up the gear, so fixing the Friday night dinner happened in the dark. One patrol was preparing macaroni and cheese in a pot over the fire. (I don't remember if they thought to "soap" the pan, but it would not have mattered for this meal.) While preparing the macaroni and cheese, a scout stepped in something, yelled "Eeewww", and kicked his foot to get the offending "material" off his shoe. The scout preparing the meal was dismayed to find some of the "material" strike him in the face. After finally calming everyone down and the appropriate clean up, the meal was cooked and served. During the eating, however, one scout found that some of the "material" managed to get into the cook pot and then into his bowl, spoon, and mouth. Needless to say, the rest of that dish (and the mouthfull) was discarded instantly. Matt Harline * Scoutmaster Troop 358 Citrus Heights, CA * * Pony Express District / Golden Empire Council * * 1997 Jamboree 1st ASM Council Troop 930 WM-47-95 Email: matth@rosemail.rose.hp.com * *