Well said Charlie!!

 

From: Texascavers [mailto:texascavers-boun...@texascavers.com] On Behalf Of 
Charles Loving via Texascavers
Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 5:02 PM
To: Cavers Texas <texascavers@texascavers.com>
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] 39th Annual Texas Cavers Reunion

 

Why are we stuck at Paradise Canyon? The OTR used to be fun when it moved 
around. Now it is in a rut. Paradise Canyon is OK but to me it is incredibly 
boring after the tenth time. I recall the first one where I and a few other 
cooked at Luckenbach. Then a lot of places all over Central Texas. Now it is 
stuck, dead in the water.

 

OK I was chief cook for 20 years and has a myriad of volunteer  people  who 
were involved in cooking. We had a rule for our volunteer cooks and there were 
about 35  or 40 of them. The rule was cook what you want but cook, but enough. 
Enough was a nebulous figure. We had tons of corn on the cob from the valley. 
Fish from Galveston, A roast pig, brisket, beef clod, chicken, turkey, hot 
links from Fredericksburg, bean salad, fruit salad, salad salad, black beans, 
refried beans, tortillas, pie, cake, cookies, a million brownies, chicken, 
Hatch chilis, gazpacho. all manner of stuff, we once had quail, and the people 
gobbled it up. 

 

All prepared by THE CAVER COOKS for the fun of cooking it. That tradition has 
died it would seem. Maybe caver don't cook anymore? Not sure why but the old 
cooks never got any new cooks to volunteer to take the reins. 

 

Maybe there was a great loss in cooking ability. I hate to say this but I 
haven't eaten the meal at OTR is four years. I am not sure why because I pay 
for it, but the last one just didn't meet my expectations. I apologize to those 
who worked so hard and long but what is, is and I am a dyed in the wool food 
Nazi. We didn't need a food trailer to cook in we just built fires and got 
after it.

 

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Don Arburn via Texascavers 
<texascavers@texascavers.com <mailto:texascavers@texascavers.com> > wrote:

Paradise Canyon
October 12-15, 2017


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