Camp fire not required

[gnappi]

Today at the market I saw and bought a bag of marshmallows, the first I've had since my son was a Boy Scout. Scouting (before the woke silliness) was a great way for a young man to learn many things that carried over into adulthood. I went to every camp out and meeting and felt blessed to participate.

When I looked at the bag of marshmallows in the store today I remembered several of the times I introduced indoor toasted marshmallows on toothpicks with a butane cigarette lighter to friends, ex-wife and the scout troop.
Most thought me a nut job until they smelled the toasty blackened sugar and asked for a toothpick and my lighter

I just finished eating a half dozen or so enjoying the treat and trip down memory lane. I've always wondered if anyone else had tried this?

 

[contender]

In so many ways,,,!

50 years in the BSA,,,,,,,,, when it meant something.

 

[s4s4u]

The littles have one of these now:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Nostalgi...TduLYxSCPXyxnHhmG5xzFuYOZSUzsyucaAvA8EALw_wcB

 

[Jeepnik]

Today at the market I saw and bought a bag of marshmallows, the first I've had since my son was a Boy Scout. Scouting (before the woke silliness) was a great way for a young man to learn many things that carried over into adulthood. I went to every camp out and meeting and felt blessed to participate.

When I looked at the bag of marshmallows in the store today I remembered several of the times I introduced indoor toasted marshmallows on toothpicks with a butane cigarette lighter to friends, ex-wife and the scout troop.
Most thought me a nut job until they smelled the toasty blackened sugar and asked for a toothpick and my lighter

I just finished eating a half dozen or so enjoying the treat and trip down memory lane. I've always wondered if anyone else had tried this?

WHAT!!! Don't you know all of the terribly toxic chemicals that are released when you use a butane lighter? Why if you ate two or three hundred thousand you might get diabetes. OH, that's right diabetes is a genetically linked disease. If you don't have the gene...

By the way, the biggest reason diabetes is on the rise isn't diet or lack of exercise. It's because people with the gene are living long enough to produce. Think of it this way. I have diabetes. I have three kids. Two of them have the gene. They have kids and if say they bred with some one who had the gene it's like all of their kids would carry it. And so it goes, constantly increasing in frequency.

 

[Fox Mike]

Eaten my weight in them while a Scout.

 

[eveled]

I once had a dream I ate a giant marshmallow, Yummy

I woke up and my pillow was gone.

 

[Johnnu2]

I've roasted them over the flame of our kitchen (gas) stove....

J.

 

[Pyromike]

I throw them out in the side yard and let the woodchucks come get 'em. Great target practice and then becomes bait for the coyotes. Buy the mini's. cheaper and they go further.

 

[tazbigdog]

Haven’t had them in years, or s’mores either. What reminds me of Boy Scouts is the smell of a wood fire in my firepit, in my backyard! Of course with a bourbon in hand as well!

 

[wproct]

It was always a campfire thing for us, toasted marshmallows and smores.

 

[contender]

Eaten my weight in them while a Scout.

That wasn't much, considering how skinny you are!!

 

[Pyromike]

Haven't had them in years, or s'mores either. What reminds me of Boy Scouts is the smell of a wood fire in my firepit, in my backyard! Of course with a bourbon in hand as well!

Big Dog - Wish I was in your troop. Mine wouldn't let us have bourbon around the fire!

 

[gnappi]

Big Dog - Wish I was in your troop. Mine wouldn't let us have bourbon around the fire!

Booze was not allowed at a camp out or any other from what I know, but after the kids went to sleep on some of the outings parent's and scout masters did break out a beer. I went to sleep.

 

[Armybrat]

Never have had a smore, but plenty of fire-toasted marshmallows.
Never advanced beyond Cub Scouts because of moving around as an Armybrat.
However, I did enjoy my brief time with our Den in Puerto Rico (Mom was Den Mother, I’m 4th from left).
Pic is from 1953.

 

[jimbo1096]

Granddaughter makes them in the oven.
Not as good as over a campfire