Lake Winston Lunch

[GordonM]

As a compliment to my Cumberland State Forest thread in the Out and About forum, I promised to show what I had for lunch on my outing. Here are a few pics...

My stuff. My high school's mascot was the Redbone Hound, Redhound for short. So, many years ago, I adopted it for my personal mascot. Here is my personal mascot, Redhound.

My Etowah Outfitters alcohol stove with mag block / ferro striker.

Reminiscent of my old Boy Scout mess kit from the 70s, here is a Coleman mess kit in the same style, KFS set and a P-38 can opener.

The components of the mess kit.

Primus kettle on to boil. A wind screen around the stove.

Nothing fancy, the menu: Canned chicken & rice soup, a little sage flavored sausage, goose pate', crackers, an orange for dessert and mint tea.

Browning the sausage to add in the soup.

The sausage added to the soup.

Mess Call! Fixin' to "tuck in".

Thanks for looking.

Gordy

 

[MartinK9]

Thanks for sharing Gordy.

Nice area to have it too.

 

[WeThePeoplexfbm]

^^ nice, good place to have lunch i bet, whys there a teddy?

 

[GordonM]

Cheers Martin!

whys there a teddy?

It is my personal mascot. I'm not sure how the tradition of stuffed toys being used as personal and unit mascots started. I remember, as a young high school student, seeing the pictures from WWII of soldiers posing with their personal mascots. I thought it was a neat tradition and have done so since. Many were/are animals but at least one famous mascot, that I am familiar with, was a Raggetty Ann rag doll. Major R.M. Tarrant, commander of a company in the 13th Battalion, 5th Brigade, 6th Airborne Division, jumbed into France with his personal mascot Raggetty Ann. When I served, I had one Company Commander that had a stuffed toy eagle as the company's mascot. I had a First Sergeant that held company formations with his personal mascot "Bat", a small baseball bat.

But on a lighter note...I'm just a big old wussie that needs the comfort of my "security blankie" err, I mean "stuffie".

Gordy

 

[nolightweight]

Nice one, Gordy.

Good food and great surroundings.

 

[Twodogs]

Gordy that looks like a good solid soup just whats needed outdoors

 

[GordonM]

The soup was a treat Cliff, for a quick throw together.

Gordy

 

[GordonM]

Not sure what happened to my reply, must not have hit the submit button????

It was a good day out Neil. The lake is also a good spot for fishing.

Gordy

 

[11binf]

what Gord no table wine ! looks like you had a great time..neat stove and thanks for the pic's...vince g. 11B Inf...