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- From: 90tms@eng.cam.ac.uk (T.M. Speight)
- Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
- Subject: Re: Lunches and Snacks: what do you bring?
- Message-ID: <90TMS.92Nov22210657@tw200.eng.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 02:06:56 GMT
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- Organization: Engineering Department, Cambridge University, England.
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- In-Reply-To: ehel@quads.uchicago.edu's message of 22 Nov 92 17: 35:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov22.173558.25037@midway.uchicago.edu> ehel@quads.uchicago.edu (E. Helsinger) writes:
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- This thread has evolved from the practical issue of lunch and snacks
- to the greater question of Food for Fun.
-
- 1. Kendall Mint Cake -- made in the English Lake District, intense
- mint and refreshing, hard as a rock and keeps for years. Nothing like
- it for reviving the spirits -- the Black Bear that ripped open my
- daypack this summer actually slowed down when he came to the Kendall
- Mint Cake. I don't know whether he slowed down because it was hard,
- or because it was good.
-
- Unfortunately, I have found, when I try to make my Kendal (note
- spelling: my family live there ;-) Mint Cake `last fo years', I find
- it crumbles to small pieces inside its wrapper. I used to carry mint
- cake as emergency food, but now I tend to take it with the intention
- of eating it within one week's walking, instead of sitting it in my
- sack trip after trip.
-
- As an alternative high-energy emergency food, I now take those jellies
- that come wrapped in a polymer package to which you're supposed to add
- water and then leave to set. I discovered the value of this food by
- accident, when I ran out of food on a trip to Scotland and ended up
- eating a friend's. One great advantage is that I find it too sugary
- and sticky to eat unless it _really_is_ an emergency; an important
- consideration in my view.
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