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Mom did not prepare Spam at all. Never even thought of taking a can camping while in Boy Scouts. By the time we went on long hikes they had freeze dried stuff that we took.

Do remember one time as part of an ordeal we were each given 2 eggs, 2 strips of bacon, 2 slices of bread, an orange, a styrofoam cup of milk, a couple of pats of butter, a container of jelly, and two matches. Then put in an area of woods that had been wetted down by a fire truck and told to have at breakfast. Had to build a fire with wet wood and only two matches and cook breakfast with no utensils, only your pocket knife. What fun eh? You couldn't share fires or work together with anyone either. Everyone was spaced apart and kept that way, oh, and we weren't allowed to talk either.

Some of the guys just ate everything raw and didn't even try to make a fire. Most cooked their eggs in the orange peel after cutting them in half and eating the orange out. I wrapped my eggs in wet leaves and put coals over them for about 10 minutes while toasting the bread and bacon with sticks like marshmallows. When I pulled the eggs out they were just like boiled eggs. Don't know what the orange peel poached eggs actually tasted like, but they didn't look good to me. They were kind of hairy with orange pulp. Nobody figured out a way to make or substitute any kind of pan to actually fry the bacon and eggs.