Originally Posted by bensyd

I'm familiar with gao's small restaurant, but I didn't realise it was because the child wouldn't eat anything.

At my high school we used to do Outward Bound once a year. A 14 day hike, sleeping under plastic sheets (it snowed one year, that was the coldest I've ever been), carrying 5 days worth of food and hiking/rafting/canoeing 30km-40km/day. I always remember lunch was a real highlight because everything was canned rather than dehydrated vegetables with rice, or powdered milk porridge. The no-name spam on a Ryvita with creamed corn, baked beans and beetroot was heaven. I can confirm that outside of those conditions, it tastes as bad as it sounds.