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Current Entry: Caveman Dinner
One of Winter Camp's most famous meal themes, this meal has been served 23 times since meal themes were introduced. It is best known for its minimalist approach to dining-as Winter Camp slips for an evening into caveman emulation mode, all trappings of modernity are discarded. Eating utensils? Gone-although in deference to minimal hygiene standards, serving utensils and drinking vessels are now employed. They weren't always. As the evening's menu includes spaghetti, garlic bread, salad, and chocolate pudding, this does indeed present a challenge. Electric lighting? None-flaming oil has, on occasion, provided some illumination. Language? Nothing intelligible. Mike Osvath is known for his willingness to serve as a model caveman for the rest of the group, and numerous Arrowmen have followed his lead in exhibiting primitive behavior. On occasion, this temporal regression has led to a bit of combat, although food fights are not scheduled for the evening. The activity which does go along with the Caveman Dinner is a massive cleanup effort (invariably necessary) in which all hands participate.
This meal was threatened at Winter Camp XX, when its menu was co-opted by the planned Phone Prank/Kimballs' Dinner. However, a Future Society meeting during camp saw it voted back onto the schedule. In more recent years, this meal has sometimes departed from Winter Camp's baking tradition by serving pre-purchased garlic bread-this is done as a convenience, not a rebellion. At Winter Camp XXXII, the Caveman Dinner was served on Day Two in a cavelike Beaver Creek building, where the electricity and thus the heat had failed earlier that day.