2:35 p.m. - 2008-05-21
s'mores
(two entries within nearly two hours! that has to be a personal best.)
Could someone explain how a dessert which is sticky, gooey and messy became the perfect camp dessert?
The ingredients are fine in their static state.
Once you toast the marshmallow--it becomes a ball of goo.
Everyone knows what melted chocolate is like to work with--hot and sticky.
Then you take both of those things and try to put them between crumbly sweet crackers which break into a half dozen pieces if you look at them wrong.
You create this whole dessert by hand!
beside a fire outside with dirt all around!!
nowhere near a plate, much less a sink for hand cleaning afterwards!!!
Maybe it's just me, but I question the brilliance of the whole thing.
Don't get me wrong, I adore s'mores. Which is why I only make them at home, in my toaster oven, using lots of plates and utensils. Then when I'm done eating them and licking my fingers, I go wash my hands.
Because *no one* wants a bear (black, brown or polar) to smell the sweet perfume of s'mores on one's fingertips....
Who came up with this idea anyway--to make s'mores outside? I need to research this, just so I can scoff at them. That should occupy me until nap time is over....
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GIRL SCOUTS?!?!?! The GIRL SCOUTS DID THIS?!?!? OH, for the love of running water. Was this some sort of mini-feminist uprising, a "see, we can be just as messy as boys" sort of thing? Or did the Girl Scouts pack more clean-up crap than the Boy Scouts? Or is this just proof, PROOF! that the Girl Scouts never did any real camping? sigh...
