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Current Entry: Hot Potato Lunch
This meal activity debuted at Winter Camp IX and has since become a new favorite. At this meal, the menu is secondary to the manner of consumption. Arrowmen eat normally while passing a potato from person to person around their table. At Winter Camp IX, these potatoes were microwaved, but tended to fall apart too easily. On an audible signal, which has at times been provided by such tools as a TRS-80 computer, a buzzer from the game Taboo, and a batteryoperated burping device, the person possessing the potato must cease eating (he is, however, allowed to swallow anything in his mouth) until the next tone is heard.
At Winter Camp XI, the menu for this meal called, rather impractically, for two kinds of homemade cookies. Both chocolate chip and sugar cookies were prepared by the kitchen crew, but that bit of overkill has not been repeated.
At Winter Camp XXXIV, the Hot Potato Lunch was played with stuffed Mr. Potato Heads for the first time. Steve Donohue had purchased these several years earlier in an effort to add some accuracy-or whimsy-to the meal. It was then just a matter of waiting several years for the meal's reappearance.