The worse camp meal you ever ate?

[Woods Dweller]

For me, it was a Turkey. It was a very windy day and I had roaster my bird on a stick over the fire. That bird looked a perfect golden brown, but as I started to eat said bird I tasted grit. The strong wind had given my bird a perfect coating of sand. That's true grit. :grin:

 

[ny griz]

:thumbsup: :haha: Griz

 

[trent/OH]

I caught my first sheepshead a few years ago and tried to cook it. It was by far the worst thing I've ever cooked. And I've eaten stuff that would make a billy goat puke.

 

[Vtsmoker]

Never had a bad camp meal. I'm the cook :idunno: :rotf:

 

[ihuntsnook]

If it was a Florida Sheepshead you did something wrong. On the Gulf Coast we call 'em crab meat with fins.

 

[trent/OH]

If it was a Florida Sheepshead you did something wrong. On the Gulf Coast we call 'em crab meat with fins.

It was a nasty feshwater fish. That's the problem with using local, common names.

 

[jethro224]

Jerky soup. Sounded like a good idea...
It was edible.

 

[Rod Lassey]

Years ago, a friend 'treated' the camp to some elk meat---as we started to eat, he told us it was the biggest bull he'd ever seen, much less killed. I could tell--it was like chewing on a very very gamey tasting rubber eraser. Not fat cow, that's for sure.

Rod

 

[Blizzard of '93]

it was a camp breakfast. the cook was'nt very good and burnt the sausage and gravy, the grits were way too salty and the eggs were fryed hard as shingles and way too much pepper. the biscuits were burnt on bottom as well and the clincher was we were so drunk we gobbled it right down :barf:

 

[Black Hand]

Never had a bad camp meal. I'm the cook :idunno: :rotf:

There is something to being the camp cook... :thumbsup:

 

[Black Hand]

Jerky soup. Sounded like a good idea...
It was edible.

Was it made with commercial jerky? All the marinade makes for a unpleasant flavor.

Plain jerky (dried meat) works quite well for camp stews. Best when simmered for a while, but will still be a bit stringy.

 

[laufer]

green smoked boudin stew, not cooked enough to kill all the green. i was not too hungry, after the first bite i stopped, by my buddy ate it all and had a lot of fun that night.

 

[jethro224]

Jerky soup. Sounded like a good idea...
It was edible.

Was it made with commercial jerky? All the marinade makes for a unpleasant flavor.

Plain jerky (dried meat) works quite well for camp stews. Best when simmered for a while, but will still be a bit stringy.

Yep. Store bought jerky.

 

[Woods Dweller]

A few years back my brother and I wake up to the smell of breakfast & coffee cooking on our campfire. Our Father was sitting there swatting mosquito and scrambling egg's. After finishing breakfast I asked my Dad why he had pit so much pepper in the scrabbled egg's? He said he dident, the black spots in the egg's were mosquito that got to close to the fire. :barf:

 

[longshot47]

Back when, while in the boy scouts, we usually cooked our own food. However, I recall -with crystal clarity, this one instance where one of the asst. scoutmasters cooked what he called venison stew :stir: . We were all ordered to belly-up. The fact that birds were dropping out of the sky and plant life within 100 yards was wilting should have been taken as an omen. Nevertheless, scouting spirit ran high and the line formed [could'nt escape!]. By the time the mess hit my plate stalwarts from the front of the line were gagging and looking green :td: . Rebellion was in the ranks, but leadership [?] stood firm; 'eat, or go home!'. Not willing to risk lost adventures in the wilderness, my partner and I gorped the stuff down with copious amounts of bug juice and white bread. I remember it like it was yesterday; the smell seared permanently into my sinuses and the taste altered my palate from then on. It was like old socks and rotted veggies simmered in kerosene.
Matters got a little anxious with some of the crew, and a few of the stubborn holdouts were actually returned to civilization the following day.

 

[Black Hand]

Jerky soup. Sounded like a good idea...
It was edible.

Was it made with commercial jerky? All the marinade makes for a unpleasant flavor.

Plain jerky (dried meat) works quite well for camp stews. Best when simmered for a while, but will still be a bit stringy.

Yep. Store bought jerky.

Great eaten as is, horrible when cooked into stew. It took me a few tries to figure out what was going on. The jerky I used I had made using a marinade that contained sugar and/or honey.

Since then, I've made jerky seasoned with a little salt, black pepper and red pepper (and sometimes sprayed with liquid smoke at the end). Still tastes great, but can be used in stew when fresh meat is unavailable. And no nasty sweet aftertaste to my stew.

 

[ChrisHarris]

Years ago, a friend 'treated' the camp to some elk meat---as we started to eat, he told us it was the biggest bull he'd ever seen, much less killed. I could tell--it was like chewing on a very very gamey tasting rubber eraser. Not fat cow, that's for sure.

Rod

My brother did that to me and a couple other guys. 'Biggest darn bull I ever seen!! Here, try these backstraps.' He wrapped them in bacon and he did this and he did that and he shook this seasoning on them and that marinade and oh boy was we gonna eat good...... blah blah blah blah

Old dried out boot leather would have been more tender.

I sneaked off to the truck and ate some ritz crackers and store bought summer sausage with a cold beer.

 

[Rod Lassey]

Yep, I'd take a bite, the more I'd chew the bigger the chunk got in my mouth---all with a very distinct "elk in rut" smell and taste. It would keep a guy from starving, I guess.

Rod

 

[Robert Egler]

Wasn't just one single meal, but the sum total of a lot of meals on one trip. Had pinto beans for breakfast, lunch, and dinner everyday of a 2-week camping trip. I wasn't very fond of pinto beans to start with, and that was 20 years ago and I've refused to eat another pinto bean to this day.

As far as a single meal goes, roasted raccoon out on trapline.

 

[Bill Hall]

Elk liver. Now, I have always loved fresh elk and deer liver, but not the way my friend cooked it.

We had one elk in the camp, so my friend, Lumpy, told us he was going to cook up some liver that was so good we would write about it someday. He threw it in a pan full of oil, basically deep frying it, and cooked it, and cooked it, and cooked it some more. I didn't know liver had the ability to become hard, I mean really hard, and completely tasteless, but somehow, Lumpy accomplished it. My other friend and I got through about half a piece before throwing it away, so's not to hurt Lumpy's feelings. Didn't work though, Lumpy was crushed when he realized we didn't like it.

Well, it's someday, and I'm writing about it, so Lumpy was right. :barf: Bill