Old Weather Forum

Working up an appetite...

So I am really behind in the conversation...
Studentforever posted:

Not quite sure where to post this but I thought we could all do with some GOOD news.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54994814

I remember first hearing the Blue Whale voice recording - but I can't remember if it come on the front of the National Geographic Magazine - or on a cereal box (45 rpm). Flimsy thing- but all: the technology for the record, the underwater recording, and the whale were food for the imagination for some time.

Thanks for the post,
Morgan

Randi wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 6:53 pm

Prepared by Chief Petty Officer Megan Mullen
Culinary Specialist “A” School
Training Center Petaluma
(Recipe)

With a substitute for the sausage I'm all up for this. Wild mushroom and walnut is highly yummy - hang on - we don't do Thanksgiving over this side of the Pond.

I'm off to collect Bodfish's Thanksgiving from the Beluga...

Here we go:
Capt Bodfish took celebration meals seriously. Here's Thanksgiving 1897, Thursday November 25th.

They are frozen in for the winter in Langden Bay (Canadian NorthWest Territories). There's a gale blowing from the NW with snow. The temperature is 12 below (F). They have Roast Pots & Duck with all fixings & Ice Cream.

Ice cream

Surely -12F calls for something hot and suety?

I wondered when someone would mention that. I guess that it is easy to make You're right jil, hot suety pudding would be much better to line the stomach and warm the cockles of the heart They might have thought twice after this lot - they get two sorts of pie for Christmas (but we're not quite at Xmas yet ). Would be ironic if one turned out to be Baked Alaska

Would "Roast Pots" be roast potatoes? I know about Pot Roast (beef cooked in a pot), but I'm not sure they would have that - or serve it with duck.

I get this image of a bunch of clay flower pots in an oven....






(Perhaps I have been reading too much of the news... )

Yep -looks like you over-news-ed yourself Love the Quantum Duck

Roast pots is indeed roast potatoes. I bet they were cooked in beef dripping which would make them very nice indeed. Or possible duck fat given that they had duck. Probably not seal blubber. And I imagine they'd have been happy to have beef pot roast. Although every time I think of them getting the barrels of beef out I try to zone out on that thought. Surely it could not have been nice (though probably better than seal blubber etc etc)?
The other yukky thought that I enjoy with the whalers is when they have 'pick over the potato' days. Rotten spuds are grim

Pie eating competition? Oh wow - pastry galore. That'd be worth turning out for

I would like to know what "Potato contest" and "Shoe contest" were - perhaps how far you could throw it?

They appear to be:

Potato [collection] race
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_race#Foot_races
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/hi ... 92062.html

and

Horseshoe pitching
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/hi ... 62248.html
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/hi ... 62340.html
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/hi ... 62308.html
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/hi ... 62247.html


More pictures tomorrow

When I was a kid we had a shoe contest at some event. I forget what the event was. Everyone took off their shoes and put them in a big pile where they were mixed together. The goal was to be the first to find both of their own shoes from the pile. That wouldn't work for the Navy though unless they were using their civilian shoes.

I remember doing something similar to the potato race at infant school sports day, although I think it was small balls or stones we were collecting.

This is a different ship than the one above, but it is about the same time period, and there seem to be several of the same games.



Caption: Thanksgiving Day celebrations on board in November 1893, at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Based on the program above and https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collec ... 06273.html, this appears to be a sack race.



Description: Men running an obstacle race, during Thanksgiving Day celebrations on board Charleston at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 1893.



Description: Three-legged race on board Charleston during Thanksgiving Day celebrations at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 1893. Participants include British and German sailors. The onlookers appear to be of mixed nationalities, as well.



Caption: Thanksgiving Day celebrations on board in November 1893, at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Based on the program above and https://www.history.navy.mil/content/hi ... 92062.html, this appears to be a potato race.

---

Keep an eye on The voyages, the work, the people, the places for more Holiday-related posts

DON'T PAY THE RANSOM!!! I ESCAPED!!!!!!

It's been a bit hectic around here. The CoVid restrictions were eased enough to let me get back 2 days a week to maintaining our 120 year old Carrousel & Museum (www.carrouselmuseum.org) and to work further on trying to finish our Habitat for Humanity House.

Looks like we are going to lock down again so I'll maybe be able to get back here to visit & to work on the rewrite of HMS M25.

Hope all are well and safe.

US Naval Academy - Thanksgiving Hop Dance Card 1916



Commander, Third Fleet (left center) Eats Thanksgiving dinner with the crew of his flagship, USS New Jersey (BB-62), 30 November 1944.

dmaschen wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 5:24 pm DON'T PAY THE RANSOM!!! I ESCAPED!!!!!!

It's been a bit hectic around here. The CoVid restrictions were eased enough to let me get back 2 days a week to maintaining our 120 year old Carrousel & Museum (www.carrouselmuseum.org) and to work further on trying to finish our Habitat for Humanity House.

Looks like we are going to lock down again so I'll maybe be able to get back here to visit & to work on the rewrite of HMS M25.

Hope all are well and safe.

Hello Dean! Glad to hear you're still around, and have found your way to this new forum.