Festival Food

[Pingu]

seriously.. MREs and immodium

jobs a goodun

 

[Xanadu]

Mre??

 

[baldrick]

meals ready to eat = vile american squaddie food iirc

 

[chymaera]

Coming from a background of bike rallies & suchlike - which tend to have any amount of partying going-on as well. It is the case that you don't see nearly as much of this & with very few exceptions, the participants do tend to clear-up after themselves.

I have rarely seen any problems with bogs at motorcycle rallies. There was one exception when I was glad I was in trap 1, a long way away from whoever went into trap 8 at the same time. There were loads of farmyard noises, plus the sound of someone attempting to honk their socks up for about 5 minutes from trap 8, followed by requests from inside along the lines of "someone please shoot me" followed by silence.
I was just about to go to rally control to get someone to check if there was dead body in it, when a not very well looking man (using the term loosely) came out and staggered off into the distance.
When the "Turdis" maintainence lorry came along later the driver took one look in the door of trap 8, shut it rapidly and craned it on the back of the lorry and took it away.

 

[selamlar]

Problem with MRE is that they are damn expensive, and also actually quite bulky/heavy. taste ok tho, in a 'doesn't actually taste of anything' kind of way

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

I have rarely seen any problems with bogs at motorcycle rallies. There was one exception when I was glad I was in trap 1, a long way away from whoever went into trap 8 at the same time. There were loads of farmyard noises, plus the sound of someone attempting to honk their socks up for about 5 minutes from trap 8, followed by requests from inside along the lines of "someone please shoot me" followed by silence.

Can you explain in any more detail what someone who is 'honk[ing] their socks up' sounds like? I'm laughing too much too type anymore atm,

 

[pogofish]

There were loads of farmyard noises, plus the sound of someone attempting to honk their socks up for about 5 minutes from trap 8, followed by requests from inside along the lines of "someone please shoot me" followed by silence.

True enough, most of the exceptions I can think were more likely to involve someone throwing-up rather than bad arse-management.

Although there has been the odd other-end incident & in the past, before you had to have a specialist contractor for this alone (we usually dug shit-pits with sackcloth cubicles at our ones, only eventually had to get portable bogs when the numbers started rising, then we got a proper serviced site), I have stuck a brush & bucket in front of someone & told them to come back & clean-it once they had attended to their unwell mate. They always did.

 

[chymaera]

True enough, most of the exceptions I can think were more likely to involve someone throwing-up rather than bad arse-management.

Bad arse management cases due to rough cider don't often make it as far the "Turdis". (Often they don't make it out of the sleeping bag.)

 

[pogofish]

Bad arse management cases due to rough cider don't often make it as far the "Turdis". (Often they don't make it out of the sleeping bag.)

At least when that happens, it is entirely their own problem & sometimes rather satisfying when it encourages some creativity in helping them find new clothes!

 

[chymaera]

At least when that happens, it is entirely their own problem & sometimes rather satisfying when it encourages some creativity in helping them find new clothes!

I think in one recent case the poor bastard won't show his face at a rally ever again. He had to throw both his sleeping bag and his tent into a skip.
(He did put them in several layers of plastic bags first.)

 

[pogofish]

He had to throw both his sleeping bag and his tent into a skip.
(He did put them in several layers of plastic bags first.)

Poor sod!

Something in me is truly hoping he was a prominent member of one of the more rufty-tufty patch clubs. It was always good to see them humbled a little!

 

[Lysistrata]

Really good flapjacks (RJ flapjacks are best if you don't make your own) and apples. Malt loaf (you can even get ready sliced). Rolls and peanut butter is a good suggestion.

At a recent festival my friends had a tiny stove which took one small fuel cell to heat up a can of soup/beans etc - might be worth investigating that?

L

 

[Pingu]

Problem with MRE is that they are damn expensive, and also actually quite bulky/heavy. taste ok tho, in a 'doesn't actually taste of anything' kind of way

provided you dont want brand new they are not too bad expense wise

http://search.ebay.co.uk/ration-pac...fQQsargnZQ2d1QQsaslcZ3QQsbrftogZ1QQsofocusZbs

i use them a lot when hillwalking and yeah they are not exactly michelin 5* rated but if all you really want is sustinance for a few days they are really good.

The UK ones taste better IMO but a lot of the US ones are self heating so no need for a stove

 

[chymaera]

Poor sod!

Something in me is truly hoping he was a prominent member of one of the more rufty-tufty patch clubs. It was always good to see them humbled a little!

He is, and he is Welsh.