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> Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
> >
> >
> > Nah, you wouldn't like it now. Having worked a summer camp kitchen a few
> > years ago and seeing the new rules/regulations set up by feds/state/local
> > governments, it ain't what it used to be. If sweetie wants to sleep in, you
> > are violating his rights to do so, if he doesn't like the chow, you have to
> > make special just for sweetie, if he doesn't like dirt, you have to have an
> > air conditioned nature/craft area and an enclosed private shower/bath
> > facility (what ever happened to a privy), if he doesn't want to play with
> > the others, we have to have an opt out area just for sweetie. No wonder
> > today's kids are a bunch of weenies. We tell them of the fun we had in camp
> > then regulate the hell out of it. No thank you.
> > -ginny
>
> When I was a kid I went to camp for one session. It sucked. The food
> sucked. I was not impressed with the activities. My wife went to a canoe
> tripping camp. She loved it and went back every year and became a
> counsellor. That camp has a family camp that we go to for a week every year
> at the end of August. The food is not horrible. It is adequate, but we go
> for the activities and to party with old friends. The accommodation is
> rustic. We get a cabin in the woods with cots. We bring out own bedding and
> lots of booze. It is my favourite vacation of the year. I take riding
> lessons every week in order to be able to go on the advanced ride.
>
> This is not a camp for wimps. It was a place that was established for rich
> parents to send their kids to toughen them up. Activities are extremely
> competitive. The youngest kids go for a 5 day canoe trip and as they get
> older the trips get longer and longer. Some of the kids spend the entire
> summer off tripping though the bush hundreds of miles from the camp.
>

The only culinary contribution summer camp and even Boy Scout camp ever
made was bug juice.