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Current Entry: Jackpot Grits

In its conception, this breakfast at Winter Camp XXVI was to feature grits with eight different toppings, which would be determined randomly for each camper by the spin of a wheel-thus pro- viding for 256 possible main courses. In its implementation on the last day of camp, it was slightly less elaborate, but the results were just as tasty.

At Winter Camp XXVII, Mark Bollman? directed a meal at which 10 different toppings were available: honey, molasses, maple syrup, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, brown sugar, and four colors of food coloring. A spinner was borrowed from the Life board game. Combinations consisting entirely of food coloring were ruled out by the chefs, leading to a total of 1008 possible breakfast entrees. Not all were served. The meal continued at Winter Camp XXVIII.

At Winter Camps XXIX through XXXI, a casino-quality roulette wheel was used to allow campers a chance at 38 different bowls of grits, which are recorded in Table 23 and have been retained at subsequent Winter Camps. Mark Rosiek spun a 0 at Winter Camp XXIX and received unadorned grits.

Jackpot Grits Menu

#ColorFillingTopping#ColorFillingTopping
1RedChocolate ChipsHoney19YellowChocolate ChipsHoney
2Maple Syrup20Maple Syrup
3Brown Sugar21Brown Sugar
4Butterscotch ChipsHoney22Butterscotch ChipsHoney
5Maple Syrup23Maple Syrup
6Brown Sugar24Brown Sugar
7RaisinsHoney25RaisinsHoney
8Maple Syrup26Maple Syrup
9Brown Sugar27Brown Sugar
10BlueChocolate ChipsHoney28GreenChocolate ChipsHoney
11Maple Syrup29Maple Syrup
12Brown Sugar30Brown Sugar
13Butterscotch ChipsHoney31Butterscotch ChipsHoney
14Maple Syrup32Maple Syrup
15Brown Sugar33Brown Sugar
16RaisinsHoney34RaisinsHoney
17Maple Syrup35Maple Syrup
18Brown Sugar36Brown Sugar
0Plain Grits00Grits with everything

At Winter Camp XXXVIII, Jackpot Grits was served for breakfast on Day Five. The cooks claimed that the roulette wheel was tied up in an ongoing casino foreclosure negotiation and was unavailable to serve as the Wheel of Breakfast. A distribution based on rolls of four dice was employed to determine the type of grits served. The following four-step process describes how the grits were prepared:

  1. Roll a 20-sided die (d20)
    • 1-19: Proceed to step 2
    • 20: Reroll
      • Even number: Plain grits
      • Odd number: Everything grits
  2. Roll a d4 for food coloring
    • 1: Red
    • 2: Green
    • 3: Blue
    • 4: Yellow
  3. Roll a d6 for topping 1
    • 1-2: Chocolate chips
    • 3-4: Butterscotch chips
    • 5-6: Raisins
  4. Roll a d12 for topping 2
    • 1-4: Honey
    • 5-8: Maple Syrup
    • 9-12: Brown Sugar

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