As a kid I loved cooking hot dogs and marshmallows over the fire too. Only we used actual sticks to do it with. Was years before I learned they made things like this to do it. But it’s not the same as finding the right stick, then having your dad whittle a point on one end (or once I was in Boy Scouts and old enough to do it myself whittling the point on my own), and roasting them on the wood. Tastes better than on metal to me. Plus the clean up is so easy, once you’re done break the stick and add it to the fire.
I cannot say enough about how happy I am to be seeing this strip develop. Our family had paperback collections of Peanuts strips, but I think they only went back to the early 60s, maybe even the late 50s. I do remember Lucy in a playpen, and Linus in a diaper, but that’s as far back as they went.
@ F6F5Hellcat as of the mid 90’s the handbook was pretty accurate. There were sub-books and text covering fire making and wood cutting. My troop had 2 firemen and they covered the fire aspect. We weren’t allowed to tend fires unless we had the Fire’m chip. It was something we were encouraged to learn because we camped year round. The wood cutting and handling of knives, saws and axes had to be earned through the totem chip. That too was encouraged.
Templo S.U.D. over 8 years ago
Probably because you just had lunch, CB?
orinoco womble over 8 years ago
Different times…kids knew how to build a fire. These days they’d pop em in the microwave.
knight1192a over 8 years ago
As a kid I loved cooking hot dogs and marshmallows over the fire too. Only we used actual sticks to do it with. Was years before I learned they made things like this to do it. But it’s not the same as finding the right stick, then having your dad whittle a point on one end (or once I was in Boy Scouts and old enough to do it myself whittling the point on my own), and roasting them on the wood. Tastes better than on metal to me. Plus the clean up is so easy, once you’re done break the stick and add it to the fire.
bookworm0812 over 8 years ago
No s’mores until you eat your wiener, Chukie-Poo.
Darryl Heine over 8 years ago
Roughing it with hot dogs!
Max Starman Jones over 8 years ago
I cannot say enough about how happy I am to be seeing this strip develop. Our family had paperback collections of Peanuts strips, but I think they only went back to the early 60s, maybe even the late 50s. I do remember Lucy in a playpen, and Linus in a diaper, but that’s as far back as they went.
neverenoughgold over 8 years ago
Before we had a microwave, I would just turn on the gas stove and roast my wiener…
ubablackhamma over 8 years ago
@ F6F5Hellcat as of the mid 90’s the handbook was pretty accurate. There were sub-books and text covering fire making and wood cutting. My troop had 2 firemen and they covered the fire aspect. We weren’t allowed to tend fires unless we had the Fire’m chip. It was something we were encouraged to learn because we camped year round. The wood cutting and handling of knives, saws and axes had to be earned through the totem chip. That too was encouraged.
RandomLantern445 over 3 years ago
Wait a minute here, Violet. Do you mean a hot dog or a Dachshund?