Oatmeal and hot cereals delivered the most powerfully negative food memories for campers of all years. Holly Foss (1966-72), Bev Lemanski (1945), MaryJo Rawlings (1950’s) and Beth Taylor (1966+) all shared their intense dislike fore oatmeal. Most of Beth’s camp memories were good ones, but she remembers one counselor who would insist they all clean […]
Month: March 2018
Dog Food Sandwiches and Taffy Pulls
“There was one dessert with cherries on it that we would do anything for a second helping. Usually, if you worked in the kitchen, you could get that second piece,” said Pam Wintermute (1955-56), who also recalled she had to bring a folding drinking cup to camp. Cynthia Gregory (1960-65) also brought her collapsible cup […]
Potato Donuts and Creamed Eggs
Most of the campers felt that although the camp food was not fancy, it was warm and good. Running off calories during the days’ activities meant the meals were especially welcome for staff and campers alike, and the girls often learned to eat and enjoy food not found at home. The girls learned to like […]
Burnt Toast and Bug Juice–
In the early twenties’ each counselor brought a white enamel pitcher of milk and a plate of graham crackers to the hut. “—for it was a long time between meals and we were hungry by then. This helped us to hold off starvation overnight,” said Harriet Crumb. Her friend Meg Dahlem remembered the hot […]
Hoppers and Manners–
“I loved meal time with the chatter and clatter and how we all sat with our cabin at one table. We would take turns setting the table, clearing, gathering the dishes into the tub to wash and so much singing and prank playing,” laughed Chris Lambert (1958-65). The food was unremarkable for Sue Augustyniak (1962-68), […]
Cookie, Cookie!
Alice Sageman “just loves Maqua and has the patience of Job”, wrote Dorthe Balaskas in her 1967 report on the cook. (No temper, just calm and never wasteful in consideration of the high cost of the food.) Lin Harris (1967) had a memory of a cook named Alice, cigarette hanging from her mouth, with her […]