The worse camp meal you ever ate?

[gearheart]

It is quite possible to mess up pancakes. When I was a Scouter leading a group of Venturers, 14 - 17 years old, one of the more inept boys was burning the pancakes black and still raw on the inside. After several of these he came up to me and with a very grave voice announced that there had to be something wrong with the frying pan as it kept burning the pancakes. :shocked2: :rotf: I had to bite my tongue. The words that came to mind would have got me kicked out of Scouting. Finally I said" :hmm: I don't think it's the pan. Try reducing the temperature so it has time to cook through before it burns.

 

[GunnyGene]

I'd rather not go into the gory details. But I have gotten much better over the years since then. :grin:

 

[zimmerstutzen]

Me, ex-wife and son and daughter went to the Eastern years ago in Western Maryland. Mrs. left son and I at camp and went back home for the middle of the week taking daughter along. Well ex wife decided to stay home an extra two days. Son and I were running out of victuals and got down to the last few items in the ice chest and cans of odd stuff in the camp box. We ended up the last day making a heaping big kettle of balogna potato soup.

 

[Black Hand]

Ever eaten bologna and cabbage? Ate that at Scout camp once....
Probably the last time I ate bologna ('91 or '92).

 

[Blizzard of '93]

many a time when I was a youngster I ate bologna and 'taters fryed up with a cackleberry or two and thought it fine. every now and again still do.
fryed bologna and fresh 'mater sandwuch is good eats IMO

 

[VTdeerhunter]

My stomach has been referred to by many as being cast iron, I can eat and keep down anything this side of 3 day road kill...as a matter of fact, I've never once complained about a meal that I haven't had to cook...

However, one year at deer camp one of the "elders" decided to wash out the coffee pot by soaking it with dish soap overnight, he neglected to speak about his thoughts nor was he the first one out of his bunk in the morning. He who was, upon seeing the coffee pot already full of water, just added the coffee grounds and set it to perking :stir:

Spent more time with my pants down in the woods over the next 3 days then up :surrender:

 

[Lonegun1894]

nothong like good 'ol drunk cooking - or eating.
I once saw a feller that was right 'under the influence' gnaw on a slab of cold country-style unsliced bacon

I eat "raw" smoked bacon staright out of the package and have never gotten sick from it, and actually like the taste. Get a lot of funny looks the first time people see me cooking bacon in camp or even at home. One for me, one in the pan for the girlfriend, one for me, 3-4 in the pan, one for me, another few in the pan. A couple friends tried it when they saw me and got to where they were spewing out both ends though, so either I have been very lucky every time, or I have developed a immunity to whatever it is they got fronm the same package of bacon I was eating from. I know it is something I have done since I was a young kid, but my mom still gets on me ( in my 30s ) so I'm sure it wasn't something that was encouraged when I started.

As far as bad meals, my worst would have to have been when I got turned around in the mountains of Arizona a few years ago and a coyote was the only thing that was dumb enough to get in range of my bow, so it got roasted over the fire without any seasoning. Hey, I'll eat anything that isn't smart enough to run away, especially after a week without food.

I also try not to complain about anyone else's cooking since I eat my own all the time. Having said that, my parents got on a health kick a while back and decided that olive oil is healthier than vegetable/peanut/etc, without taking into consideration that olive oil also has a lower flash point and a much lower temperature where any and all food aquires a very nasty burnt flavor.

 

[Big Lee]

Back in 83 I was home on leave and was helping on a scout camping trip,They had to cook a meal without any utinceals, they made hamburgs and baked patato's. Their campsite was in a hayfield so no ground fires were allowed,was raining pretty good so the scoutmaster went to town and baught some charcoal and lighter fo them to use. he let them go for it never gave them any deriction or anything. The boys used forked sticks with sticks woven in them to hld the hamburg in place. To bad it was green pine bowes. So Pine sap burgers and Lighterfluid baked patato,s Is the worst camp meal I've had, and there have been some bad meals out in the field. I was a guest at 5 different troops that weekendfor meals and the first was the worst and it was the troop I belonged to 4 years before.

 

[Woods Dweller]

I eat "raw" smoked bacon staright out of the package and have never gotten sick from it, and actually like the taste. Get a lot of funny looks the first time people see me cooking bacon in camp or even at home. One for me, one in the pan for the girlfriend, one for me, 3-4 in the pan, one for me, another few in the pan. A couple friends tried it when they saw me and got to where they were spewing out both ends though, so either I have been very lucky every time, or I have developed a immunity to whatever it is they got fronm the same package of bacon I was eating from. I know it is something I have done since I was a young kid, but my mom still gets on me ( in my 30s ) so I'm sure it wasn't something that was encouraged when I started.

Ya got a iron gut. But even iron, as it gets old will rust, and when it do. Mmmmm!
“Do dat mean what I think it do? It do!

 

[54mountain]

Spit roasted prairie dog. :barf: NUF SAID.

 

[Jim Vatt]

Well, 38 years ago it was the raccoon I that was my "first scalp ever taken." That one still haunts me! Followed closely by one 30 years ago that was the flintlocked caribou that I just had to roast the liver. Strong is an understatement!!!! Recently, it was groundhog stew that was made from one of the same two whistlepigs that boarded Noah's Ark!! Like chewing a boot!

 

[shmrck1]

Duck!Yuck.....At home I can make it eatable
in camp once was too many times :barf:

 

[Woods Dweller]

Bump.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

My worst? Well we didn't eat it. A lady in a Maryland unit wanted to roast a turkey, but did it raw over an open fire, never having done it before, AND a large bird = longer cooking time. We suggested cutting it up and baking in Dutch Ovens..., to no avail. No reflectors, no par-boiling..., so by like 9 p.m. it was still mostly raw. :cursing:


I had to make a run to the local A&P Market (do they still exist?) to get a package of half-smokes to feed the troops. Boiling was done by about 22:00 hours. :shake:

Anyway, that reinforced in me a very valuable lesson..., don't plan to use for others a recipe or technique you haven't tried before by testing on yourself.

Case in point I just did a super fast apple crumble for a group, but tested it the night before on myself. :wink:

I also do this with cooking for my wife or for the whole family..., and she has never needed to know how many times what I made myself for lunch (on my day off or the weekend when she's out) ended up in the trash due to an EPIC FAIL on my part with the new recipe, and what the family had later that evening for dinner was (instead of the failed recipe) an old favorite. :wink:

LD

 

[nhmoose]

Green Hash!! DO NOT EAT

 

[necchi]

I've had Salmonella poisoning,, Once!
Guess what? It's not the Salmonella bacteria that get's you sick,, it's the Salmonella bacteria's excrement that's toxic!
There is no "eating" of a worst meal.
If it's a cultural difference of flavors that your not used too is one thing,, oh well, try it.
If it's bad food -- It's bad food!
What drives me nut's at Rendezvous is the women that have to pack their entire fridge in their cooler to make meals,, then have 4-5# of extra food made at each meal and ask you if you want some.
Then they get mad!! Because you say "No - Thank you", If i don't cook my food it will spoil,,,
So now your the bad guy because they have to through away their food.

 

[coloradoclyde]

What drives me nut's at Rendezvous is

Children running around with drink boxes and individually wrapped string cheese while wearing a glow necklace and blowing a gosh dang whistle.......

 

[sidelock]

I have been camp cook for over 50 years, with pretty good results, except one time my brother and I were on a spring gobbler hunt in western VA. I had brought along some really nice steaks for the grill. Brother says "how bout some hickory smoke on em" He cut some young hickory growth and added to the fire. TOO MUCH!!!! Could hardly eat em. Turned out to be a great trip but several things happened on that trip that made some good stories. Others later.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Green hickory.. :shocked2:

 

[sidelock]

Young ----- live ----- growth of the year. ???????? What's to understand ??????