[at-l] GORP

[m_factor@hotmail.com (Mara Factor)]

GORP = Good ol' raisins and peanuts...

I like the original and I like the variations but do not mix ingredients in 
advance.

If you add salted peanuts to raisins and let them sit for a week or two, you 
end up with disgusting UNSALTED peanuts - blech!

If you want to send some to yourself in a maildrop, package ingredients 
separately and combine when you're going to eat them.  They'll certainly 
keep well for a few days to a week.

FWIW, a lot of gorp gets left in hiker boxes along the way.  Many bags have 
rancid peanuts (don't store your peanuts (or anything else with oil to be 
mailed where it's at all warm).  None have M&Ms in them.  The M&Ms get 
picked out...  or at least don't last too long once the gop is left in the 
box.  ;-)

I actually decided that I preferred to eat food that was easier to eat than 
gorp.  Dipping grimy hands into gorp bags and tilting my head back to pour a 
bunch into my mouth got old fast.  Candy/protein bars and Stretch Island 
fruit leathers were ideal.

Mara
Stitches, GAME99

>From: "Papa Bear" <papa_bear_nyc@yahoo.com>
>To: "AT-List" <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
>Subject: [at-l] GORP
>Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:38:40 -0500
>
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>Thanks.  I'm about to start a large GORP production line for myself.

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