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Badtux the Snarky PenguinIn a time of chimpanzees, I was a penguin. Religious fundamentalists are motivated by the sneaking suspicion that someone, somewhere, is having fun -- and that this must be stopped. |
Monday, May 28, 2007A side discourse on camping and trail foodMinstrel Boy claimed that MRE's taste "like sawdust". MRE's are actually quite tasty, I ate several of them this trip and they were pretty yummy. He likely was thinking of freeze-dried food, which is pretty awful. But MRE's are quite heavy as well, so my trail food does not include them.Unfortunately I make the decision to leave town with about five hours' notice, so I was not going to cook hardtack or carry hard salt bacon or do anything like that prior to leaving. I was hard pressed enough getting all my camping gear out of the plastic bins that I'd hauled back from storage the previous evening (I'd hauled it to storage when I thought I was going to move, as one less thing to move on moving day). So I tossed some MRE's into the big black bear canister for car camping, and tossed some freeze-dried and some tuna (pouch) and ramen noodles into the small bear canister for backpacking, and headed out. Luckily I like tuna and noodles. And while freeze dried is nasty, there's a few freeze-dried that taste okay either with MRE crackers (sorta hard-tackish) or with enough Tabasco. Still, if I were planning a long trip, this is not what I'd do for food. But, alas, that is what happens when you are a penguin pining for snow and suddenly realize that there is still snow in the Sierras... Hmm. Between the MRE's and what little freeze-dried I have left and the stuff in my pantry, I have enough food for several weeks. And the white gas, propane, and isobutane to cook it. Not bad for disaster preparedness, even if it's accidental... -- Badtux the Camping Penguin Posted by: BadTux / 5/28/2007 09:04:00 PMComments:Sounds like you had a loverly time.# posted by sumo : 29/5/07 3:01 AM
Disastor Preparedness! You know something we don't?
Looks like you will be all set for when the Rage Virus hits. (BTW I love MREs)
My camping consists of room service and the only wildlife I tend to run into are drunk cougars.
Darling Spock, you only wish you ran into drunk cougers. We all know that the last couger you ran into had her very burly bodyguards evict you from Her royal presence. Anyhow, I guess camping just isn't "logical" enough for Vulcans. I mean, why go someplace where there's no room service?!
OK so first I had to google MRE. Had never heard of that. |
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