[Philmont] At least it isn't skunk

        Well, let me try and answer this missive.
   
  First, I look forward to meeting Mr Sheehan at the ranch on Sept 22nd because I only have one other contact in all my years with New Jersey Scouts and Scouters and I'd like to erase that image from my mind.
   
  Second. Gumbo
   
  Gumbo is not just something to be put together non chalantly using canned stuff. Oh yeah, I've read the Scout stuff opn canned food and used my share of it. Even ate a can of cold beans a time or two.
   
  You see Bill, it would not matter a tinkers damned what I made the gumbo with because all who will be eating it are either Californians or semi yankees. I mean they are from Austin, Texas and that's almost to the Masonic Dixon crayola line. So, yes I could get buy with using Sue Bee canned shrimp. Or hell, for that matter I could use those dried sea bobs we sell to damned yankees and call them shrimp.
   
  But!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'd know!!!!!!! I plan on eating some of it myself you know!
   
  Raccoon and dumplins is getting the vote pretty strongly around my abode. Susan and I both have little chesser cat grins on our faces.
   
  At least it isn't skunk!
   
  John LeBlanc
   
  P. S. Bill, don't forget. Look for us on Sept 21st and 28th at the Casa del Gaviland and Sept 22 at CHQ tent city. Between those dates we will be at Miranda. The gumbo/racoon is scheduled to be served at Miranda on the 23rd.
   
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    John LeBlanc laments the inability of fresh or freeze dried shrimp to meet his requirements for an Autumn Adventure gumbo.
   
  The 1967 edition of the BSA Fieldbook relates, at p. 130,in pertinent part:
   
       To some people, "living out of cans" means being downright shiftless. The picture of a glum
       greenhorn spooning cold beans out of a can isn't very appealing. But there are times when
       canned food is a lifesaver, and often it is the only practical way of carrying certain foods--
       which is what we're thinking of, after all.
   
                                                       * * *
       You'll find many canned foods useful on pack trips where you have no refrigeration . . .
   
                                                       * * *
       Cans add only a modest amount of weight to dense foods, like meat or fish, which are high
       value foods hard to find or carry other than canned. Although inedible, the can is not useless
       if it is the price of having necessary foods on hand at all.
   
  I'm sure I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. But did you know that canned shrimp is not limited to shrimp pieces or those tiny cocktail shrimp? Bumble Bee offers sizes through medium and up to what they term large. Click on http://www.bumblebee.com/products_fam.jsp?famid=3 for the complete lineup. My local Acme has a can of the "large" for $4.96, which works out to $19.96 per pound. Depends on how much you like your gumbo and how much you value those you are travelling with.
   
  After all, you're not really backpacking it on this particular trip.
   
  Let us know if the gumbo does make an appearance.
   
  Bill Sheehan, ASM
  Troop 55, Pitman, NJ
  Philmont '70,'72, Autumn Adventure '01,'03,'05,'07
   
        

       
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Received on Mon Aug 20 21:37:28 2007