The late chef James Beard once noted, “Food is our common ground, a universal experience.” Combine that with motorhoming, and dining can turn adventurous! FMCA members shared these foodie experiences to answer this month’s question:
What’s the most unusual food you’ve eaten while on a motorhome trip?
Where do I start? In Florida it was alligator. Frog legs in Louisiana. Eel (white meat; tastes like chicken) and sea urchin, really gross, on the northern California coast. In Alaska, moose and elk were both great. In Mexico, head of cow tacos, dried shrimp patties, and chicken leg soup; okay, but not repeated. Eating the local food is the joy of traveling.
Weta Berger, F205425
Brownsville, California
On a motorhome trip several years ago, we were in Mission, Texas. One day while we were looking for a place for lunch, we found a nice little café. We saw many of the patrons having this dessert and asked what it was. It was grapefruit pie. Yes, we did try it and, yes, it was good.
Darlene Orr and Rick Andrews, F292270
Branson, Missouri
We were sitting at the top of the mountain at Cumberland Gap, admiring the view on a beautiful, clear day. We started chatting with a lovely couple from a nearby town. The four of us started the return journey down the slope, continuing our conversation. Along the way the subject turned to hunting; we don’t hunt, but the gentleman loved it. He began telling us about the great venison sausage he had made from a recent kill. At the bottom of the slope, he went to his pickup truck, brought out the sausage, cut off a big hunk, and proudly presented it to us. We looked at each other a little tentatively. I could see we both felt the same — it would be terribly rude to refuse the sausage. We each gulped, took a very tentative taste, and were very pleasantly surprised! It was delicious. Later we acknowledged we were expecting a strong, gamey taste that we did not get. Don’t know which we enjoyed more — the new acquaintances or the excellent sausage.
Billie Torbeck, F236771
Largo, Florida
This may not be all that unusual, but I thought I’d share a method of food preparation that we have used several times since being introduced to it by a home economics teacher at a campground. Partially fill a zip-top bag with scrambled eggs and add any variety of precooked meats, plus onions, mushrooms, peppers, cheeses, anchovies, pine needles, or whatever else falls in. Close the bag, squish the contents around a little to mix them up, and drop the bag into a pot of boiling water until the eggs are firm. No way to scorch them. Call it an omelet if you wish.
Dan Fregin, F389328
Chico, California
Future Questions:
1. Type A, Type B, or Type C motorhome: what’s your preference, and why?
2.Describe an unusual activity you’ve tried on a motorhome trip.
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