cub camp
Cub Camp - 50 under-tens, let off the leash in a feral car crash of outdoors mayhem.

Cubs was great. Food at cub camp usually consisted of a fuckoff huge vat of whatever the hell Akela decided to render down to a soup. But we didn't care - 8 hour days of running about like twats playing the most extravegant game of war running over two weeks with intricate tactics, huge bases built from fallen trees and various pretend-combat related fun meant we always had the most voracious appetite, and would eat anything.

Except one day. Akeala came out with a steaming huge billy of...brown. That's what it was, it was brown. A big steaming billy of brown.

There was a moments hesitation at the sight of a bowl of delicious brown, but we all pile it down.

Within 10minute there were 50 cubs all in various stages of diareoehh, stomach cramps and vomit. This, over a 24 hour period is a truly technicolour sight to behold.

Now, my mum WAS Akela, and many years later she told me what had actually happened.

She and the other scout leader had brewed up an awesome stew of various herbs and spices, but in the process of lifting it off the stove in the site kitchen, had dropped it. And spilt it all over the filthy, floor, coated with two weeks worth of dirt traiped in my all us cubs. Not having any alternative food for the screaming hordes outside the door, they decided to scrape it all back into the billy, and then - to kill any nastiness in there - boil the fuck out of it for 25minutes.

Which the cubs then all ate.

It's not surprising that now I very rarely get a stomach upset, having been immunised at cub camp.
(inflateable, Tue 22 May 2007, 22:24, Reply)