We all have to eat...and being out in a dusty field with 2000 crazy people does not change the situation. Sometimes, you get lucky, and there is a good concession on site, or you remembered to bring some tasty food from home.

But, sometimes it does not go well. Youre trapped on site because the car is a million miles away, or theres NO food except what the troops brought (and they are not sharing)....

youre on your own.

My worst meal, ever....that has to be a Dinner I cooked one friday night...having forgotten to pick anything up it consisted of three scrambled eggs, with a small handful of sour creme and onion dip potato chips mixed in.


GaK. it was awful.

I have been enjoying living history for three decades and counting; done just about every time period imaginable, from middle ages to WWII... I can honestly say I've never had a bad meal at a reenactment. When I'm not cooking for myself over a nice fire I am being invited to share a meal at one of the camps. F&I, Rev War and CW events always have great food and I never lack an opportunity to eat.

Food is part of the experience and I do everything I can to eat period dishes. From boiled beef to K-Rations.

Worst meal? Never had one.

Best meal? Johnny Cakes, vinegar boiled beef and salted pork with choclate corn meal mush for desert. All eaten with a good friend, 10 miles from the nearest road while on a 1750's era 3 day trek. On the second day we had roasted squirrel that I had taken that morning with my trusty flintlock, Constance. Third day we had trout that we got with our dabber angling rods in a stream. Ate like kings.

Come on over to Oregon, Ray, I'll teach you how to cook at a reenactment. You deserve it. ;^)



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F&I event. Just for us in the first person. Great fun, but the Saturday meal was a bit too authentic. real salt pork not too bad, the flour had mealworms in it they crisp up nice in the oven) and honest to god lard-sugar-and rasins spotted dick which was...lubricating.

certainly authentic, prolly more nutritious than McDonalds.

I heard that earlier this year an event down south had horse in the southern camp.
chriso

Washington Artillery jungle juice with sock and jockstrap.

phuphuphnik Wrote:
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> F&I event. Just for us in the first person. Great
> fun, but the Saturday meal was a bit too
> authentic. real salt pork not too bad,


Salt pork is good but can be improved if you soak it in water for an hour or so before you cook it up. I'll usually cut off a meals worth out of my pack and soak it in a creek for an hour or two while I set up camp for the night. It can take some of the salt-punch-to-the-face effect out of the equation.

I knew a group of guys back East, real HARDCORE F&I reenactors. Quite a few years back they went into the woods on a 8 day trek and took a dog with them, apparently the dog did not come back. That's the most authentic meal I have ever heard of at any reenactment.



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I'd tell ya, but it was nothing I could recognized by appearance, taste, or smell.