[Philmont] At least it isn't skunk

Gumbo is great. Try Bahamian Conch sometime. Has to be fresh and not the
stuff you get in a can, which is overspiced.

Have to be in the Bahamas to get this treat.

You might be able to have this at Seabase (?).

Philmont should run a contest for the best specialty dish prepared by a
crew.

If judging this turns out to be a duty assigned to the Philmont Advisor
Department, I will be volunteering to be in the Philmont Advisor
Department. :-)

Joe
JAJansenJr@gmail.com

On 8/20/07, John LeBlanc <philmontjohn@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> ***********************************************************************
>
> 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 21:52:33 2007