Interview

My dad’s name is Doug. Whenever we are camping, he usually does the planning and figuring out what we are going to have. He has a lot of fun with it and I think that’s why he likes to do it.. So anything that has to do with the grill, that’s his territory, what he enjoys doing. That’s why he likes to do the camping stuff, because, not like wild-man, but he enjoys the outdoors aspect of it I think. He is excited; it is like an experiment for him every time. Because he is a science teacher he likes to mess around with spices, with different ingredients. Trying to see if he can make anything interesting, and I am sure it’s all related to the fact that he is a teacher. Every year he tries to get his class to eat things like fried crickets or mealworms or something cool like that. I think one year he actually caught a snapping turtle and they made something out of it in his class. They also picked mushrooms. He has an outdoor classroom at Jamestown [Mo], so they will go out there and pick mushrooms. He likes to put weird stuff in there [the classroom]. Like the army bean stuff. So somehow he got his hands on some army packaged food, shrink-wrapped beans or something like that. And everyone in his class was terrified to eat it, so he took a little spoonful ate some and said “wow guys, this actually isn’t too bad”. And one brave kid came up and decided to try it, and he said “oh, actually Mr. Selby is right! This isn’t too awful.” And little by little all the kids came up one by one, I think by the end there were only about two kids who decided not to try it. It ended up being tasty, considering it was shrink-wrapped beans.