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100 Dish banquet
| Origin | Winter Camp III (1979) |
| The Story | At Winter Camp III, we had a 100 dish banguet. It was cooked at Beaver Creek and Clearwater Cabins. Each camper had several dishes to prepare and the cooking was all done more or less simultaneously. There were hot plates on the tables indoors and there were a number of propane stoves along the front of the BC building which used to have counters for a trading post. There were a few dishes cooked down in Clearwater cabin. It was in many ways, more complicated than the 162 dish banquet. First, there weren't nearly as many adults there (only 3) and we didn't do nearly as good a job of picking things to stagger cooking. At the 162 dish banquet some things were made the day before and either had to be heated or just served room temperature. Even the adults that were there weren't as experienced at cooking as they are now and there wasn't any sort of team construct -- each scout had stuff to do and that was it. Somehow, we managed to pull it off and serve 100 dishes prepared by the twenty-five people who were there. |
| Veracity | This story is true. |
| Trigger | Any time someone complains about a meal being too much work or talks about banquets, this is likely to come up. |
| Positive Message | A group of arrowmen was able to prepare 100 dishes in basically a single cabin with very little adult assistance. |
| Teller | Any of the geezers might decide to tell this one. |
