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Current Entry: Winter Camp Historic Banquet
This meal started out as a simple idea of Jeff Rand's to create a new banquet theme, but the logistics involved in its planning and the machinations necessary to allow for its possible eventual return have brought it to levels far beyond the simple. The basic idea was innocent enough: a meal consisting of 18 dishes, each of which had only been served at one previous Winter Camp. A search of past menus for 17 unique items to join a new Winter Camp food and create a somewhat balanced meal proved somewhat challenging, but each Winter Camp was successfully represented. When this meal was planned and served, there was no known record of the menu for the Salute to the States Banquet at Winter Camp XII. Accordingly, there was a small risk that unavoidable duplication occurred. However, when the menu was unearthed in the 10-year time capsule at Winter Camp XXII, no duplications were found.
The implications of this meal for future Winter Camp menus were certainly not thoroughly thought out at the time and are still being wrestled with. In order to allow for the possibility that this meal might be served again, future menu planners will find it necessary to include at least one new food item in each year's bill of fare; more critically, it is necessary not to repeat any of the items listed above at future camps. A violation of this guideline was narrowly averted during food shopping for Winter Camp XIX, when a plan to include pork rinds in the "Night At The Tavern" snack had to be scrubbed when Mark Bollman--> noticed that they were part of this meal. Popcorn was hastily substituted, and no one seemed too disturbed. The fact that these dishes were served in connection with the History Banquet and some at the 162-Dish Banquet is not considered a violation of the "one Winter Camp" rule.