Date:  Wed, 8 Nov 1995 16:19:22 -0500

From:  Bob Haas <rahaas[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HAMLET.UNCG.EDU>

Subject: Re: Pocket Stew



On Wed, 8 Nov 1995, Wayne Glowka wrote:



> 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.):

Wayne,



We called them foil-packs, but I think Lynda Barry's description is much

more apt.



Bob