Originally Posted by
bensyd
Hmm...My mother used to cook one meal and it was take it or leave it. Even SPAM tastes good when you're hungry.
My parents were the same way. My mother was even so mean as to insist that if I didn't eat dinner when it was hot, I would have to eat it cold before getting a bedtime snack. Oh, the humanity!
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.
It is.
I never would've wanted to do Outward Bound, but if you were an outdoorsy person, I'm sure it wasn't horrible.