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From: PGerlach@AOL.COM
Date: Mon Jan 31 2000 - 16:27:53 CST
When I was 17, our Troop went to the 1973 National Jamboree (Eastern
encampment, Morraine St. Park, PA ). In preparation for this I learned,
after 6 years of monthly campouts, (drum roll, please) PATROL METHOD
COOKING!!!! Until that point our Troop did strictly individual cooking.
Translation - lots of hot dogs, minute steaks, & vanilla wafers. Yes, you
can cook in an Official Boy Scout mess kit (and remember, carbon is the basic
building block of life). Clean-up? I'll get that when I get home. My sons
have done only Patrol Method cooking. When I see how much better they eat
than I did (both taste & nutrition) and what they've learned from the
process, I can't help but wish we had done it that way in my youth. We did
enjoy ourselves at the Jambo - not only did we eat extremely well, my Patrol
(all Life & Eagle) got our picture in the Jambo newspaper with our white
table cloth, china, silverware, goblets & silver candelabra - the result of a
camaraderie you can't get when each of you is huddled over his own little
pan. Keep them cooking in Patrols - it's one of the Methods for a reason.
YiS
Pete Gerlach
Asst. Scoutmaster, Troop 69
Burr Ridge, IL
a good old Eagle, too
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