[at-l] Blueberry Pancakes, Porkchops, and Thou

[gadog430 at charter.net (Gadog430)]

The EMT's weren't all that friendly. I wish we could get thru to them
somehow and let them know...'Hey, whatever we have you guys are welcome to
eat'. Then they could go off to that exam with a nice full belly.

I had no problem with my crew at all in any way. In fact, they had it
already going when I overslept lunch on Saturday. And they had it going when
I was late getting there from cocktail hour for Saturday Night dinner. You
guys rock!!!

But there again, I have said too much.

Dawg

----- Original Message -----
From: "W F Thorneloe" <thornel@attglobal.net>
To: <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 3:46 PM
Subject: [at-l] Blueberry Pancakes, Porkchops, and Thou


> The secret to the Blueberry Pancakes is only the Blueberry Patch's
> good soil and karma. I use a heap of Krustie's mix, although they
> seem to work as well with Aunt Jemima's. Cheap syrup from Costco, and
> all is good.
>
> The meat, and some of the griddle grease, came from Stripling's, way
> down south in gnat country south of Macon. I prolly should have
> simply bought bulk sausage, but used huge links, stripped the casings
> and flattened out the patties by hand.
>
> I'm trying to wrap my brain around the comments that I looked real
> good, and that I'm butt ugly and need raw meat to attract someone
> like Clyde. Thank God Curtis doesn't come to these affairs.
>
> Now, I would like to make a couple of comments on the kitchen. It
> works pretty well, but we had too damned many cooks frequently. It
> got particularly bad when the EMT folks started showing up at random,
> blowing circuits for their microwave bacon when we had plenty of
> access to hot griddles. The griddles were shut down, of course. The
> idea that they would come with a few minutes before their
> certification exam and inconvenience the feeding of scores of folks -
> well it just burns me that these medical folks were so inconsiderate
> and callous.
>
> Similarly, we need to figure out some way to accommodate the rare/few
> folks with special dietary needs/preferences. Handing busy cooks
> special meals and telling us to fix it for them (no magic words that
> a 3 year old knows) - well that got a few comments from my cooking
> peers. I'd like to think that if one wishes to make something -
> anything - that folks would bring gear and alert planners of their
> desire to add it to our cooking schedules - if not simply prepare it
> themselves as stove room opens.
>
> And, social time is not during food preparation. I'd love to hear
> about your latest acquisitions, divorces, conflicts, victories and
> what-not when we aren't concentrating on our version of Food Channel
> / AT Style. I am normally a really patient person, but you must stay
> the #@$$%^@%% out of my way when I'm being patient! Talk to us while
> you are preparing something, but let everyone deal with their task at
hand.
>
> Hence, I'd suggest that we have a volunteer sign-up system for the
> cooks, preparers and clean up folks - and try to have this hammered
> out well ahead of SORUCK 7.0. Miss Janet did a fine job of this while
> getting her boiz lined up for kitchen duty, tapping many of us during
> last Fall. I think Dawg and I could learn a lot from her example.
>
> And, if there is a God in Heaven, could someone figure out a way for
> the cooking crew to get to enjoy hikes, also. I was so surprised and
> thrilled when the Slacker Hike was late starting!
>
> OrangeBug
>
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