Today’s post comes from Bart, the bear who found a smart phone in the woods.
Yo, Bart here.
So I’m seeing a lot of articles about this group of humans who let themselves be locked in a crate out on the barren slopes of a mountain in Hawaii for three months – all to see if they could make interesting meals out of nothing but the kind of ingredients that could be shipped to Mars. You know, freeze dried beef, rice, lentils, dried fruit and Spam.
It’s called HI-SEAS,for Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation.
The project just finished up and you can read all about the different things they did, including exploring around the site wearing “spacesuits” and alternating their meal schedule between pre-packaged dinners and feasts they invented or put together using suggestions from online visitors. I guess one of the best recipes they got came from a professional chef who told them how to make Moroccan Beef Tangine.
That one really hit home for me. We bears are pretty much all about making the best possible balanced meal out of the stuff we can find around the edges of an ordinary campground. Here’s my recipe for Scavenger Salad:
Ingredients:
- Twinkies
- Doritos
- Half eaten Buffalo Wings
- Gummi Bears
- Marshmallows
- Graham Crackers
- Juice Boxes
- Ketchup and Mustard Packets
Directions:
- Throw everything in a pile.
- Eat.
It’s kind of cool to look at the ingredients list they had to work with at HI-SEAS. It’s a better selection than we bears usually get. Seeing this, I’m pretty sure I know what I would have done if they’d picked me to be on the crew.
- Eat all the cashews.
- Eat all the beef, sausage, pepperoni and Spam.
- Eat all the peanut butter and nutella.
- Eat all the molasses and brown sugar.
- Rest.
- Eat everything else.
Surviving on Mars wouldn’t be so hard!
Your pal,
Bart
What meal do you make when you don’t have the makings for any of your favorite meals?
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