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Walter
03-01-2011, 02:52 AM
The following is from something I've been working on other than photography
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Much the same as for anywhere and anyone else, times were both good and not so good. Once, after a forty day stretch of having nothing but jackrabbit to eat, their pet badger found its way to the dinner plate. The Mitchell’s felt terrible about it, but what has to be done has to be done. From the experience, Jack came up with the following technique for preparing badger:

First remove the head and hide and probably the insides. Mix a generous amount of dish soap, a gallon bottle of PineSol, and a goodly quantity of Alka Seltzer together in a large wash tub. Don’t forget the Alka Seltzer because if you happen to taste the meat, or get some in you, the seltzer will fizz and the animal will think a rattlesnake crawled into its hole and it’ll come right out of you possibly leaving you alive. Soak the badger in it for six weeks. This will give the meat a shiny, silky texture when you take it out of the oven and gives the chemicals a chance to thoroughly penetrate the meat and saturate it with its subtle and aromatic chemicals..

Your badger is now ready for the oven. Next, find an old piece of concrete that will fit in the oven. Strap the badger to the concrete, surround with overly-aged limburger cheese, then salt and pepper liberally. Be sure to tie the badger down tight to the concrete as you don’t want it to escape—it may still be able to. Place the whole thing in the oven that has been preheated to 500 degrees. Next, set the temperature to 2800 degrees and call in a fire alarm. After the fire is put out, open all the doors and windows to get some fresh air in the room, pry open the molten oven door, scrape the badger and cheese off the slab, throw them in the garbage and eat the concrete. I recommend serving with a sledge hammer and suggest a fruity red wine to wash it down.

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icassell
03-01-2011, 10:10 AM
I love it! I'm not sure about the fruity red wine, however. Diet orange soda might be more appropriate.

Walter
03-01-2011, 10:54 AM
I love it! I'm not sure about the fruity red wine, however. Diet orange soda might be more appropriate.

I might have to eliminate that part altogether as the Mitchells had to eat their pet badger in the early 30s, during prohibition. Jack Mitchell was quite the storyteller:

I’d started cooking breakfast and had a good fire going. The coffee was scalding hot and I was getting my bacon fried up in the pan when then wind picked up. By picked up I mean it picked up the fire and blew it off and across the desert. I grabbed my pan full of half-cooked bacon and started chasing after it. It took awhile as the strong winds shifted this way and that way, but I finally caught up with it and finished cooking my breakfast. I turned around to pour myself a cup of coffee and found I was 19 miles away from where I left my coffee pot.

Jack and Ida Mitchell lived in a remote part of the desert at Mitchell Caverns (http://digital-desert.com/mitchell-caverns/).

Antarctican
04-07-2011, 01:16 PM
:popcorn:

Walter
04-07-2011, 03:08 PM
:popcorn:

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As time went on the honeymooners built a cabin out of rock from the area. Jack blasted and dug out a trail along the side of the mountain that helped cut down the time it took to hike from the cabin to the caverns. It was exhausting work but saved a lot of time and effort for what it took to make the trail. Jack got a story out of the endeavor to boot.

One night I was pretty beat up and tired from blasting and clearing rock and was too tired to take a couple young fellows on a tour. It was getting dark, and they looked like an alright sort, so I told them to go ahead by themselves. I told them the entrance is the second tunnel and there were some flashlights they could use in a box. So they took off and I sat down to have myself dinner. Well, they must have forgot that I told them to make sure they went to the second opening; it was dark and they went into the first instead. One of them reached into the box and grabbed what felt like a flashlight. When he couldn’t find the switch to get the light to turn on, the other kid struck a match only to find that the first was holding a stick of the dynamite I’d been using to blast away rock. They ran all the way back to their car and drove off whooping and hollering about how I was trying to kill them.

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Antarctican
04-07-2011, 03:45 PM
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Walter
04-08-2011, 10:07 PM
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Another:

Jack and Ida had a water tank they kept full for the indoor plumbing. It was open on top, so to help keep it clean, Jack had put a catfish in there he called the ‘General’. The idea was the creature would eat any bugs that found their way into the tank. To supplement the General’s diet, every day Jack would climb up the ladder and feed him a worm. The General would take the worm right out from between Jack’s fingertips hungrily swallowing it down. One day Jack was busy working and in a hurry. The catfish seemed more hungry than usual, so he emptied all the worms from the can into the tank. Then Jack went back to work. The next day Ida was in the house with a few friends. Jack was outside staying out of the way when he heard screaming coming from the house. He rushed in to see that one of the lady-friends had collapsed on the floor from fainting. Next to her lay a broken glass, spilled water, and three worms. Apparently the General had not been as starved as Jack thought. The worms the fish didn’t eat made it though the plumbing to the kitchen through the faucet and into the glass of water. That evening the General made it to the dinner table. He was much easier to prepare and far tastier than the badger.

icassell
04-08-2011, 10:10 PM
:biglaugh:

Love it!

Antarctican
04-09-2011, 09:23 AM
These are fun!
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