Radio 4 Food Programme - Camping Food
Radio 4 Food Programme - Camping Food
Radio 4's Food Programme this week is about camping food. Whilst not really about lightweight cooking it was an interesting programme. It is repeated at 15:30 on Monday and then should be available afterwards on iPlayer. Interesting contrast made at one point between the British approach - everything out of cans and the US approach - take a gun/fishing rod and go kill and prepare your food.
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Penfold
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Re: Radio 4 Food Programme - Camping Food
I would have thought our U.S. cousins were more freeze dried "just add water" types for camping.
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mcallaghan
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As an American, who camps, and lives in the rockies, I can tell you that the 'American way' for camp food is not hunting. Fishing, yes, if you know you're going to a place where you can fish, then a few people I know will bring their fishing rods. I don't, personally. But the hunting part - you can only hunt certain animals in certain seasons (hunting seasons for said animal) and well, people just don't do that while camping. Its messy, has to be in season, and far too much meat (say if you kill a deer) plus you have to tag your kill and have a game warden check it out etc. I wonder where they got that notion...
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Penfold
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Probably just one of those steriotypical things...You know the sort of thing..... all Londoners walk on pavements made of gold and wear bowler hats 
I went on a 6 country European tour back in about 1996 with a load of other nationalities. An Australian bloke asked me where I live. I told him Birmingham (Its the biggest city near to me) His reply was staggering (IMHO) he said "So your out in the bush then"
He wasnt joking !!
Now if you know Birmingham or anything about UK industry there is NO WAY you could consider Brum as "Out in the bush"
In his mind he really thought (I know because I had to ask him) that once you were outside London you were into bush land.
In Paris on the same trip I was talking to an American woman who was on the ferris wheel on the Tour De France route. we were talking because her daughter had the same first name as my daughter.
She asked where I came from too...When i told her she said, "Oh thats in the north isnt it, it's so dirty and glum up there"
I asked again how she came to that view and she said she knew because she had seen it on the film 'Brassed Off'
My missus laughed her ass off at that one when I got the kids off the wheel.
I went on a 6 country European tour back in about 1996 with a load of other nationalities. An Australian bloke asked me where I live. I told him Birmingham (Its the biggest city near to me) His reply was staggering (IMHO) he said "So your out in the bush then"
He wasnt joking !!
Now if you know Birmingham or anything about UK industry there is NO WAY you could consider Brum as "Out in the bush"
In his mind he really thought (I know because I had to ask him) that once you were outside London you were into bush land.
In Paris on the same trip I was talking to an American woman who was on the ferris wheel on the Tour De France route. we were talking because her daughter had the same first name as my daughter.
She asked where I came from too...When i told her she said, "Oh thats in the north isnt it, it's so dirty and glum up there"
I asked again how she came to that view and she said she knew because she had seen it on the film 'Brassed Off'
My missus laughed her ass off at that one when I got the kids off the wheel.
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I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.
- Winston Churchill
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.
- Winston Churchill
Re: Radio 4 Food Programme - Camping Food
I have lived partially off the land in a few countries and it is much more reliable and easier to forage for plant based food and sea/river food than going for mammals or birds. Unless you like roadkill. 
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