31 Days, 31 Memories - Day 19

[bironic]

Okay, I owe synn this one from Sunday.

19. Elementary School

One summer at day camp our troupe participated in the cake-decorating contest. We went all out, getting white icing all over us (well, we were a group of six-year-olds). What I remember from all the stuff we must have stuck on there is a gumdrop rainbow. We kept sneaking gumdrops as we made it. It was probably hideous. And we won. And then we ate it.

Comments

[catilinarian.livejournal.com]

Obviously, that was where you got started on your devil-duck-cake-making career. ;)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Apparently so. Although the camp cake was an exercise in tackiness as opposed to Satanism.

[kabal42.livejournal.com]

10th grade, bording school
As a part of the get to know people-process we had a "Superday" - which was 24 hours of activities non-stop. Amongst the things we did were cooking over fire and some such. Anyway, I got to chop the head off a chicken, scald it, pluck of the feathers, take out the intestines and then watch someone else cook it. I liked that division of work.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

:) At a different camp, science-oriented, when I was older (~10), we dissected squid and then ate them. One minute we were extracting the cartilage backbones, poking them into the ink sacs and then scratching words on paper, and the next we were slicing the animals up and cooking them over a hot plate with tomato sauce. I imagine the vegetarians were squicked, but it was great fun.