Date:  Wed, 8 Nov 1995 11:20:22 -0500

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

Subject: Pocket Stew



Some time ago, we were having a discussion about what to call that

concoction of meat, potatoes, carrots, and onions steamed up in foil on

camp outs in Boy Scouts and the like. I just ran across a name (that I

have never used) for the mess in Lynda Barry's _The Fun House_ (New York:

Harper & Row, n. d.):



"Pocket Stew" "COOKED ON A CAMPFIRE"

BURNT TIN FOIL BURNT POTATOES AND CARROTS THAT ARE STILL HARD BURNT WADS

OF NASTY RAW HAMBURGER BURNT ONIONS GIRLS CRYING



The capitalized captions are linked with arrows to a messily drawn picture

of what pocket stew looks like when opened up.



Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu