Which reminds me, I owe memquay a new pair of underwear.
I once had a whole meal of plain butter. Never done that again. But even worse: burned porridge of buckwheat. Don't try it.
ForestMoan, despite your eating history, welcome to site membership! I'm sure we all would be interested learning more about canoeing in Norway.
Spam is fine in small amounts.
The bad meals usually come in a foil pouch or MREs.
Some people really can't cook, but most people I travel with are excellent cooks.
The bad meals usually come in a foil pouch or MREs.
Some people really can't cook, but most people I travel with are excellent cooks.
Don't be afraid to experiment. Once people paddle for 5 days they usually eat whatever you put in front of them.
We were in the deep forests on the Trinity River of No CA. I cooked some chicken but it was kind of bland. It needed something. We found some blackberries and made a sauce. The berries were not very ripe and sour. My friend pulls out a package of "Blue Meany Kool-Aid". It overcame the sourness and it was delicious. After dinner a black bear came down the hill towards camp so he must have thought so too. My two herding dogs turned him around and we never saw him again.
We were in the deep forests on the Trinity River of No CA. I cooked some chicken but it was kind of bland. It needed something. We found some blackberries and made a sauce. The berries were not very ripe and sour. My friend pulls out a package of "Blue Meany Kool-Aid". It overcame the sourness and it was delicious. After dinner a black bear came down the hill towards camp so he must have thought so too. My two herding dogs turned him around and we never saw him again.
I noted a number of posts commenting on Spam. My youngest daughter‘s military family was posted to the island of Guam for three years about 10 years ago. The on-base McDonalds restaurant had an entire menu of your usual favorites featuring Spam as the meat, in addition to it’s usual beef based items.
When I commented on this I learned that the locals developed a taste for this Homel product during and after WW2 when they were sustained on it by the US military. I also learned that a significant portion of Spam production continues to go to the Pacific area even to this day. On a visit to Australia during a visit with my daughter I enjoyed a mutton Big Mac in the airport McDonalds.
When I commented on this I learned that the locals developed a taste for this Homel product during and after WW2 when they were sustained on it by the US military. I also learned that a significant portion of Spam production continues to go to the Pacific area even to this day. On a visit to Australia during a visit with my daughter I enjoyed a mutton Big Mac in the airport McDonalds.
I remember as a kid eating c-rats left over from WWII, it was known by the term bully beef but was actually spam. I still enjoy it fried up with eggs and hash browns once in a while.
As an aside spam actually saved my bacon on one winter trip- we'd had 3 days solid of freezing rain and ice fog, and literally everything had 1/4" of ice on it, we struggled for over an hour to light a fire to dry out with no luck, then I remembered a story about soldiers making coffee by lighting a can of spam on fire, so I took the can, inverted it on a stick over the tiny flame we did manage to keep going, and let the hot fat drip onto the wood, we had a raging bonfire in about 5 minutes, and a bonus meal of hot, fried, spam...
Spam now comes in little foil packets around 4 ounces. For a backpacking trip or portaging canoe trip it really livens up some boring meals by just by adding a small amount.
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