What do you mean you’ve brought a gas grill and dinner’s
ready? I’ve spent all day building this enormous fire! I had to cut down half
the forest to collect the wood for it and I nearly lost the use of my arms
trying to light it using the skills I learned in the Boy Scouts. I would say I’ve
done a rather successful job, wouldn’t you? This beast will burn for days! Long
after we’ve gone back to the city this sucker will be going strong! You can’t
very well toast marshmallows over a gas grill, can you? You could roast an ox
on this thing. Spaghetti? That’s not camping food! I was going to actually slay
an ox! What is the point of coming out here at all if it isn’t to go back to
nature and live as our ancestors did? Pass me a cigarette. This really ticks me
off. Let’s take a vote: who’s hungry? Who would rather have some delicious
freshly killed ox? It would be worth waiting for. Anyone?
Easy Skillet Meals,
Better Homes and Gardens, 1972