On 9/18/13 7:33 PM, John Kuthe wrote:
>
> My father said he used to bake potatoes in mud, years ago when he was
> a kid. He'llbe 96 this Jan!!
>
> Infer what you will from that! :-)

Cooking all sorts of things in mud or clay over a bed of hot coals used
to be a regular Boy Scout method in the 50s and 60s.

-- Larry