Date:  Wed, 29 Mar 1995 12:01:50 -0500

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

Subject: Re: ADS-L: Help with "smores" and "salad shooter"?



>Wayne,

>Wasn't that stuff called "Hobo stew" or something like that? From my

>son's Scout days I recall taking some hamburger, cut up potatoes, cut up

>carrots and (for the daring) some onion, wrapping it up in several layers

>of foil and putting it by the hot coals. By the time dinner came around,

>many people were so hungry that they ate theirs a little bit underdone.

>Allen



I honestly cannot remember what we called this dish. Seems to me it was a

"something or other dinner"--a name in keeping with the mod use of

throw-away aluminum foil in the 60s ("It's quilted!"). I keep wanting to

call the concoction a "shepherd's pie," but that is a culinary horror of

another ilk (layers of hamburger, green beans, and mashed potatoes--I can

still see the stain of orange grease in the potatoes).



The Peruvians (who can afford to eat) have a dish called "churros," I

remember, that consists of a piece of bread (that looks like a stick of

corn bread) dipped into a thick chocolate pudding. I'm told that churros

are served in Spain.



Of course, one of the fast-food Mexican restaurants serves a choco-taco,

but I've not had the nerve to order one, what with people standing around

and looking at me and all.



Speaking of french bread filled with chocolate, I remember the "eclairs" we

used to get at the Dunkin' Donuts in Aberdeen, MD. One night, one of the

other dr**k people said that he didn't want to get them any more. They

were like eating a hoagie roll stuffed with filling. O the days of

unlimited saturated fat! What was life without endless steamed broccoli

and fat-free yogurt like? Do you remember?



Time to eat--if you can call it that.









Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu