April 20, 2012

Mess Kit

Posted by Yabu at 08:27 AM

As you might know, I’ve been going through the attic, looking in boxes and crates. Found this.

This is the Juju Woman’s Girl Scout Mess Kit. It was/is well used, to say the least. She’s been cooking for a long time, and she is not “that” old (mid 40’s). Experienced, I would say.

Threw a F-4 Phantom in for good measure.

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15 Comments

  1. Elizabeth
    Posted April 20, 2012 at 8:55 am | Permalink

    Had the same one and used it for years from Brownies through Seniors. Nothing like burning the snot out of your hand on that metal skillet handle — ahhhh, good times, and s’mores.

    • Yabu
      Posted April 20, 2012 at 9:10 am | Permalink

      You are in the club….trust me, that’s saying a lot.

  2. Ralphd00d
    Posted April 20, 2012 at 9:46 am | Permalink

    Looks almost the exact same as my Boy Scout one… and I have that here in a box somewhere….

    • Yabu
      Posted April 20, 2012 at 11:21 am | Permalink

      Yeap, looks lile my Cub/Boy Scout one too. They had to come out of the same mold. Gotta be the same.

  3. John Venlet
    Posted April 20, 2012 at 11:21 am | Permalink

    Yabu, now don’t be photoshopping some picture of that F-4 chasing that mess kit as if it’s a UFO.

    • Yabu
      Posted April 20, 2012 at 11:23 am | Permalink

      Now, that is clever. Made me smile.

  4. El Capitan
    Posted April 20, 2012 at 1:51 pm | Permalink

    Mine sleeps with the fishes. Somewhere in the bottom of Lake Livingston. You’re welcome to dredge it up, but even after 30 years of soaking, I’m afraid the burnt eggs in the pan still won’t scrub out…

    • Yabu
      Posted April 20, 2012 at 2:38 pm | Permalink

      Damn, unfortunately, I have some stuff that sleeps with the fishes. Flipped a canoe on the Buffalo River in Tennessee once, we lost two Winchester 30-30s and all the beer.

  5. Braden
    Posted April 20, 2012 at 2:10 pm | Permalink

    That mess kit will most likely outperform the “top of the line” kitchen cookery crap coming out of China. They don’t make stuff like they used to these days. Haven’t so in years.

    • Yabu
      Posted April 20, 2012 at 2:41 pm | Permalink

      You are so right. Hell, they’re making Buck knives in China now. Pisses me off to no end.

      • Braden
        Posted April 21, 2012 at 11:22 am | Permalink

        I hear you, brother. I cannot stand walking in Walmart anymore. What was once supposed to be a “Made In USA” store is now nothing more than ChinaMart. Those Chinese have us by the balls. And they know it. So do our elected officials. They know it, too.

  6. LC Aggie Sith
    Posted April 20, 2012 at 3:29 pm | Permalink

    My son is using mine now, and chances are that it will get passed on to his kids :)

    • Yabu
      Posted April 21, 2012 at 7:10 am | Permalink

      Good for him. I lost mine is a house fire many years ago.

  7. Laura
    Posted April 23, 2012 at 6:49 am | Permalink

    I had one of those! I wasn’t in the Girl Scots or anything. I may have won it in a poker game with one as a child though.

  8. Mockingbird
    Posted April 27, 2012 at 11:34 pm | Permalink

    I had one as an 11 year old boy scout. First meal was…fried baloney!
    It got stole from me and I gave up on cooking. LOL