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Encyclopedia WinterCampica - Meal By Numbers
The creative merger of color and food is a Winter Camp tradition dating back decades to such events as the Rainbow Repast and Monochrome Meal, and that tradition was upheld on Day One at Winter Camp XXXVI. A key component of the Meal By Numbers was acquired online and announced on Facebook just before camp. With the delivery to D-A of a set of edible food markers under Ethan Rein's name, the stage was set for a memorable meal.
The first challenge of Meal By Numbers, as ably demonstrated for all campers by Dave Milon, was to draw a paint-by-numbers picture on a tortilla, using the numbers 1-7. Each Arrowman then presented his creation to the meal servers, who filled in their picture with a collection of differentlycolored foods to create something approximating a burrito. The artwork ranged from intricate geometric designs-which were frequently ignored by the servers in the interest of getting everyone through the line before midnight-to some examples of representational art that were rendered in ground Beef, salsa, black beans, lettuce, blue sour cream, cheddar cheese, and Rice to varying degrees of faithfulness. Jeff Rand insisted on coloring his tortilla without the interference of the meal staff, and took great pains to fill in his drawing of a butterfly to a high level of precision. The spectrum was completed with purple Bug Juice and several trays of orange Jell-O, the latter of which was served later in the evening to campers both human and musculine.
Entry Created: 01/12/2014 Last Update: 01/01/2021
