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Meals good, drinks bad
Jul. 28th, 2002 01:46 pmIn response to yesterday's entry about Tang-slime...
Pascal (the HMP project lead) has to be convinced that quality matters... for example, he buys a couple of cases of Power Bars to take on traverses, plus ten cases of icky fruit-jelly bars that are one-third the price. And case after case of vending-machine peanut-butter crackers. Which no one likes, so they pile up... the white 150gal cooler that I'm sitting on (webcam) is literally filled with these bars, 2 years past their "best if eaten by" date in mildewed boxes.
Condiments are few and in short supply, too... people bring their own and share. To use up a huge supply of powdered milk before it expires, we have to add Nestle Quik to powdered milk for cocoa. Likewise if we want coffee.
But while condiments, beverages and trail fare are fair-to-poor, the cooked meals have been quite good -- our camp cook Ginger is a schoolteacher in Resolute during the rest of the year, and she is used to these conditions and equipment. We have a camp oven... we had light and fluffy parmesan biscuits with our beef stew just now at lunch. She made apple pie for last night's dinner. Tonight we're having curried chicken for dinner. Much better than the ramen noodles and Spam we used to endure in 1998 and 1999.
In any case, we have intermittent sunshine (after more snow last night, it started to pile against my tent) so we're going to do another spacesuited human demo at Site 4 this afternoon.
Pascal (the HMP project lead) has to be convinced that quality matters... for example, he buys a couple of cases of Power Bars to take on traverses, plus ten cases of icky fruit-jelly bars that are one-third the price. And case after case of vending-machine peanut-butter crackers. Which no one likes, so they pile up... the white 150gal cooler that I'm sitting on (webcam) is literally filled with these bars, 2 years past their "best if eaten by" date in mildewed boxes.
Condiments are few and in short supply, too... people bring their own and share. To use up a huge supply of powdered milk before it expires, we have to add Nestle Quik to powdered milk for cocoa. Likewise if we want coffee.
But while condiments, beverages and trail fare are fair-to-poor, the cooked meals have been quite good -- our camp cook Ginger is a schoolteacher in Resolute during the rest of the year, and she is used to these conditions and equipment. We have a camp oven... we had light and fluffy parmesan biscuits with our beef stew just now at lunch. She made apple pie for last night's dinner. Tonight we're having curried chicken for dinner. Much better than the ramen noodles and Spam we used to endure in 1998 and 1999.
In any case, we have intermittent sunshine (after more snow last night, it started to pile against my tent) so we're going to do another spacesuited human demo at Site 4 this afternoon.
