A few days ago the following conversation took place at our home:
Kaddi: Jake's Scoutmaster just called. They need to meet at the church on Friday at 4 PM because they're going on an overnight campout.
ME: Super!
Kaddi: He's supposed to take a 'tin-foil dinner' with him. So, I need you to get on the internet and found out what that is.
ME: I don't need to get on the internet. I already know what's in a tin-foil dinner.
Kaddi: What's in it?
ME: It's just hamburger meat and potatoes and carrots wrapped up in tinfoil. Sometimes people put in onions for flavor. You stick it on the coals and let it cook.
Kaddi: That doesn't sound right. Will you just look it up, please?
ME: Kaddi, I've been on lots of these campouts. I've eaten plenty of tin-foil dinners. That's exactly what it is.
Kaddi: Well, he doesn't like any of those things. So use the internet to find a different kind of tin-foil dinner.
ME: (after checking several websites) Look, here's several recipes for tin-foil dinners and they are all some variation of the formula I already told you.
Kaddi: Why would anyone want to eat that? That doesn't make any sense. He's already going to be sleeping on the ground. It's going to be cold out there. And then he has to eat tin-foil hamburger? That's not any fun.
ME: (Knowing I should just keep silent but foolishly deciding to speak) No, it's not fun. It's camping.
Post-script: Jake did go to the campout with a tin foil package containing sirloin steak and some carrots. He did eat it. He did sleep on the ground in the cold. And he did have fun.
3 comments:
At least he didn't get left at the church by his scout leader.
Well, don't tell Kaddi, but Dave and I both love tinfoil dinners. I make them sometimes and just cook them on the bar-b-que.
The fact that a scout got left behind on that occasion, while tragic, probably saved lives.
And Kaddi's culinary upbringing was very different from most other people. This is a girl would sit in the car and eat her happy meal while the rest of the family dined at a Chinese restaurant.
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