Current Meal Themes

Beginning at Winter Camp II, we have had a theme for each meal at camp. The themes take several forms. Some, like Coastal Cuisine are based on the food consumed during the meal; others, like the Hot Potato Lunch, are based on the activity that will take place during the meal. Still others, like the Electric Lunch, revolve around the way the food should be cooked and the most bizarre group, like the Caveman Dinner, determine how the food will be eaten. Some themes combine several of these elements into one meal.

In the list below, we show meals we've held in the last 5 years in bold. Anything we've ever held will show a Last Held with a link to that year's history. If we have a more detailed description, that will show up too.

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Starting with Numbers Starting with A Starting with B Starting with C Starting with D Starting with E Starting with F Starting with G Starting with H Starting with I Starting with J Starting with K Starting with L Starting with M Starting with N Starting with O Starting with P Starting with Q Starting with R Starting with S Starting with T Starting with U Starting with V Starting with W Starting with X Starting with Y Starting with Z

Neals beginning with Numbers

100-Dish Banquet: The beginning of the excess

Last Held: III

1000 Calorie Meal: For those on a diet

16-Dish Banquet: Sixteen things to eadt.

Last Held: II

162-Dish Banquet: One dish for each numbre of our lodge

Last Held: XXV

Meals beginning with A

A-Z Banquet: Every letter is represented

Achatz Lunch: Spanish Rice or One-pot Spaghetti

Last Held: III

Adam & Eve Snack: Apples

Last Held: XVI

Afghan Meal: An ethnic choice

Airdrop Meal: Drop the food from an airplane

Airmail Meal: Everything has to be airborne

All Day Lunch: Graze all day

Alliterative Meal: Matching sounds

Alphabetic Banquet: One dish for each letter of the alphabet

Last Held: VII

Anemic Meal: Counteracts the carnivorous meal

Animal Lunch: Pick your animal and chow down

Last Held: VIII

Anniversary Dinner: One unique dish from each Winter Camp

Last Held: XX

Anti-Gravity Meal: Must be hung in the air

Anti-Oatley Snack: Eat things that are bad for you

Last Held: XXVIII

Anti-Stone Sink Meal: Eat a meal with the fewest possible dishes

Last Held: XX

Arabian Adventure: Arabian foods

Ark Dinner: Two teams cook the same basic ingredients.

Last Held: XXVII

Aromatic Meal: What's that smell?

Asymetrical Meal: Must be oddly shaped

Automatic Breakfast: Lay there while your breakfast is made

Autotrophic Meal: Create your own food like a plant

Awards Banquet: The typical athletic sorta thing

Last Held: VI

Meals beginning with B

Baby Meal: Make a mess of your strained peas

Backpack Meal: Carry it with you

Bake-Off Snack: Competition in the baking realm

Last Held: XII

Bakery Snack: Freshly baked bread and other treats

Last Held: XXIX

Bali Brunch: A light repast of fruits and bread.

Last Held: XXIX

Bar Meal: Eat food from a bar

Last Held: XXVIII

Barbecue Dinner: Barbecued delights

Last Held: XXVIII

Barbecue Lunch: Barbecued delights

Last Held: XIV

Barf The Mog Lunch: Food selected to resemble dog food.

Last Held: XXIV

Bavarian Bistro: A meal typical of a German cafe.

Last Held: XXIX

Beggar's Banquet: You can eat whatever you can get.

Last Held: XIII

Behind Enemy Lines Lunch: Food eaten furtively

Birthday Party: Happy birthday to ?

Last Held: XV

Blazing Saddles Lunch: Foods specially chosen to encourage flatulence

Last Held: XXVIII

Blind Lunch: Eat while blindfolded

Last Held: XX

Boat Meal: Gently sway while you eat.

Body Temperature Lunch: Are you getting warmer?

Last Held: XVI

Bomb Meal: Can you defuse your breakfast?

Boot Camp Meal: Eaten on metal trays

Bottle Meal: Everything comes out of a bottle

Bouchard's Bonanza: Fare served at a Montreal area hot dog joint

Last Held: XXII

Box o' Chocolates Snack: Chocolate covered mystery foods

Last Held: XIX

Brain Snack: Everything is shaped like a brain.

Last Held: XXI

Brotherhood Breakfast: Feed your partner

Last Held: IX

Brotherhood Dinner: Feed your partner

Last Held: XV

Brown Bag Lunch: Bring it from home

Buffalo Meal: The main course is buffalo

Buffoon Lunch: Act like a jerk while you eat

Last Held: XV

Bureaucratic Lunch: Paperwork must be in order.

Last Held: XI

Burger Time Dinner: Food is dropped from the ceiling and caught on plates.

Last Held: XXII

Burglar Meal: Steal it from your neighbor

Buried Treasure Snack: Dig your food up

Last Held: XVIII

Business Lunch: Soup and a sandwich

Last Held: XXIV

Meals beginning with C

CAG Funeral Feast: Celebrating the end of an era.

Last Held: IX

Cajun Lunch: Hot and black

Last Held: XXVI

Campfire Snack: S'mores and such

Last Held: XXVI

Candidate Lunch: Half a sandwich.

Last Held: VII

Candle-cooked Meal: Cooked over an open flame

Canned Meal: Everything needs an opener

Cannonball Lunch: Stacked Spheres

Last Held: XVIII

Cantina Lunch: Star Wars inspired lunch

Last Held: XXII

Carnivorous Lunch: Nothing but meat.

Last Held: V

Casino Snack: Watered-down drinks and bar snacks

Last Held: XXIX

Caste Breakfast: The haves and the have-nots

Last Held: X

Catered Meal: Not likely.

Caveman Dinner: The other Winter Camp classic

Last Held: XXVII

Ceremonies Day Snack: Snakc eaten ceremonial style.

Last Held: XXIII

Challenge Meal: Prove yourself worthy of your food

Chili Cookoff: Competitive chili contest as teams vie for top honors

Last Held: XXVIII

Chinese Dinner: Assorted Chinese foods.

Last Held: XXIX

Christmas Banquet: A goose and it's assorted trimmings

Last Held: V

Christmas Party: A little scroogy.

Last Held: II

Civil War Lunch: Argue while you eat

Last Held: XVII

Class 10 Meal: Eat things most wouldn't even call food

Clearwater Meal: Eat in the other building

Clue Meal: Solve the puzzle to get your food

Coastal Cuisine: A seafood buffet

Last Held: VI

Coded Recipe: Solve the code before you can cook

Cold Meal: The ultimate in no-cook meals

Come-back Meal: Snappy patter earns you a forkful

Communal Straw: Everyone sucks from the same vat o' food

Competition Lunch: Prove yourself worthy of your food

Last Held: X

Conglomerate Lunch: Rand Stew and its companions

Last Held: XXIX

Continental Breakfast: Optional fast food

Last Held: XXVIII

Continental Lunch: Optional fast food at lunch.

Last Held: XXVIII

Counterweight Dinner: Food is eaten in pairs on a teeter-totter.

Last Held: XI

Cowboy Meal: Beans and weiners Mongo.

Crude Dinner: Try to be obnoxious

Last Held: XIII

Cube Dinner: Everything is shaped like a cube.

Last Held: XXIV

Meals beginning with D

Darkyard Ravioli: Solar heating

Decibel Meal: How loud can you chew?

Dehydrated Meal: Everything must add water

Deli Meal: Ham and Pastrami on rye please

Last Held: XIII

Desert Meal: Crackers and other dry favorites

Dinner and a Movie: Watch a movie while eating a culturally appropriate meal.

Last Held: XXVII

Disaster Snack: Eat foods you might find after a disaster.

Last Held: III

Do or Die(t) Dinner: Non-optional outdoor cooking at its finest.

Last Held: XXVI

Dried Orange Peel Snack: Prevents scurvy

Dutch Oven Meal: Cook in dutch ovens

Meals beginning with E

Eat on the Run: eat while running

Eat Out: Not likely

Eating Contest`: How much can you eat?

Electric Lunch: Everything cooked on electric stoves

Last Held: VIII

Emily Post Dinner: Eat using your best table manners.

Last Held: XIII

Emily Post Meal: Manners

Engineering Breakfast: Carefully planned and executed

Last Held: XXIV

Ethiopian Meal: Not much

Meals beginning with F

Fallout Meal: Food is in a bag

Fancy Ice Meal: Ice carvings and eating on the lake.

Last Held: XIX

Fast Lane Meal: Hop in your car and eat as you drive

Fido Food: Just like Fido gets

Find Your Food: Food is hidden in a cache somewhere

First Class Meal: Top quality food and drink

Floor Meal: Eat off the floor

Foil Pack: Cooked in fire

Food 911 Lunch: Teams get ingredients but no recipes.

Last Held: XXVII

Food Song Meal: Eat to pre-recorded songs

Frisbee Meal: Eaten from a flying disk

Future Snack: Futuristic fare.

Last Held: XIII

Meals beginning with G

G vs. E Lunch: Foods with good and evil names like Angel's Food and Devil's Food cakes.

Last Held: XXVI

Gag Meal: Try to eat while bound and gagged

Generic Lunch: Those familiar black and white labels

Last Held: VI

Geometric Lunch: Everything cut to a right regular shape

Last Held: XXII

Geometric Snack: Everything cut to a right regular shape

Last Held: XIV

German Embassy: Spaetzle anyone?

Giant Meal: Think Big!

Last Held: XIX

Giant Popcorn Snack: Try to pop the top off this popper

Last Held: XXIV

Gilligan's Island Meal: Tropical favorites

Grandmother's Meal: Just like Gramma used to make

Greco-American Lunch: Thinly themed way to eat chili dogs.

Last Held: XXIX

Greek Gourmet: Opa!

Green Eggs And Ham Breakfast: From the Dr. Suess classic

Last Held: XXIII

Grit Breakfast: It's cheap if not tasty.

Last Held: III

Grovel Snack: Beg for it you lowly scum

Last Held: XV

Gruesome Snack: Pig balls and other entrails Nummy!

Last Held: XI

Meals beginning with H

Had 'em on the Strawberries Meal: Captain Queeg's favorite

Hash Meal: Hashed everything

Hawaiian Luau: Poi and it's pals

Last Held: XXIV

Heart-Stupid Breakfast: A variety of foods guaranteed to be bad for you.

Last Held: XXVIII

Hearty Canadian Breakfast: A thoroughly Canadian take on breakfast.

Last Held: XXII

Hell Meal: It's red or it's hot or it's both

Last Held: XXI

Herbivorous Breakfast: Eat only plants

Last Held: XIV

High Speed Breakfast: How fast can you eat?

Last Held: XIII

Hindu Dinner: Eat vegetarian fare cooked Indian style

Last Held: IV

Hooter's Dinner: Just like the famous place only without the waitresses

Last Held: XXVII

Hospital Meal: Yech!

Hot Potato Lunch: Eat until the bell sounds

Last Held: XXIX

Hume Lunch: Named after a prank phone call.

Last Held: XXI

Hungarian Breakfast: Greasy bread and other Hungarian delicacies.

Last Held: III

Hunter's Feast: Game animals

Meals beginning with I

IED Meal: Improvised Eating Device meal

Imagination Meal: Pretend you're eating something else

Immigrant Meal: Food typically eaten by immigrants

Inclined Plane Meal: The food slides into your mouth

Indian Lunch: Unlike the Hindu meal, this one just misses beef, not all meat.

Last Held: XXIX

Indigestible Meal: Try to recover the indigestible parts

Infommercial Snack: Competing salesman cook the same item using different methods and try to sell theirs as the best way.

Last Held: XXVII

Insect Meal: Bugs are quite nutricious

International Smorgasboard: Banquet class assortment

Intravenous Snack: Attach the needle and all

Iraqi Meal: An ethnic choice

Irish Feast: Corned Beef

Last Held: XXVI

Irish Lunch: Corned beef sandwiches and other light fare.

Last Held: XXVII

Isreali Breakfast: A light breakfast from Isreal

Last Held: XXIX

Meals beginning with J

Jackpot Grits: Grits with randomized additives.

Last Held: XXIX

Japanese Dinner: Low tables and no shoes

Last Held: VIII

Jewish Mother Meal: Get nagged while you eat

Johnny Appleseed Snack: Apples!

Last Held: VIII

Juggling Meal: You have to juggle it to eat it

Junk Snack: Nothing but junk food.

Last Held: XII

Meals beginning with K

KFC Meal: Fried Chicken and all the fixin's

Last Held: XXIV

Korean Meal: An ethnic choice

Kosher Meal: Everything prepared properly

Meals beginning with L

Lake Meal: Go fish

Last Breakfast: You'll get it anyhow

Last Held: XXV

Last Chance Potluck: A midweek conglomerate lunch.

Last Held: XVII

Latrine Meal: Eat in the wonderful BC latrine

Lazy Man Meal: Eaten with minimal expenditure of energy

Lechter Meal: Cannibals & Chianti

Leftover Meal: During the mid-week. I warned you.

Last Held: XXVIII

Liquid Meal: Use a straw to get every drop

Little Ozzie's Pizza: The classic meal of Winter Camp

Live Turkey Meal: Do your own butchering

Lumberjack Breakfast: Eat like a lumberjack.

Last Held: XIV

Lunch On The Run: Cook your portable meal outdoors

Last Held: XXIV

Meals beginning with M

Maid and Butler Meal: Uniformed attendants

Majestic Meal: Eat dinner with his highness

Man vs. Wild Meal: Pretend to eat survival food

Mann's Midnight Deli: Brian Mann makes and delivers a late night snack.

Last Held: XVIII

Marching Meal: Eat on the move

Mash Meal: Eat like the 4077

Masquerade Lunch: Where a mask while you eat

Last Held: II

McDonald's Breakfast: Food

Last Held: XIII

Medieval Feast: Fit for a king!

Last Held: XVII

Mestizo Meal: Mexican Indian food

Last Held: XX

Mexican Meal: Make a run for the border

Last Held: XXVIII

Midday Breakfast: More like a brunch really.

Last Held: II

Midget Meal: Think Small.

Midieval Feast: Celebrate with the king

Midnight Snack: Eaten in total darkness

Last Held: XVI

Missing Meal: There just isn't one

Moebius Meal: Every dish has only one side

Mollusk Meal: Lots of sea food here

Monochrome Lunch: All the food must be the same color.

Last Held: XVIII

Mosaic Meal: Laid out in an interesting grid

Movable Feast: Eat at different stations in camp

Movie Snack: Popcorn and Sno-caps

MRE Meal: Combat rations are soooo tasty

Musical Meal: Change plates on a whim.

Last Held: XI

Mystery Meat: Can you identify it?

Last Held: XXIII

Meals beginning with N

Name That Tune Banquet: Get the tune

Naval Dinner: Subs

Last Held: XV

Never tell me the odds Dinner: Another Star Wars inspired meal

Last Held: XXII

Night at the Tavern: A snack served up tavern style.

Last Held: XX

Night of the Living Dead Meal: Assorted animal brains

No Breakfast: Just what it says, even cheaper than grits!

Normal Dinner: Just plain edible food

Last Held: III

Meals beginning with O

Oakes Lunch: Chicken Soup

Last Held: XXIII

Oatley Breakfast: Healthy and nutricious

Last Held: XXIII

Officers vs. Enlisted Meal: The Caste system rears its ugly head (again)

On a Spit Meal: Everything is on a spit

On Beyond Zebra Lunch: A Seussian alphabetic meal.

Last Held: XXIII

One Item Meal: Just one thing to eat

Oracle Bakery Snack: More baked goods on Matrix theme.

Last Held: XXIV

Organ Fest: All sort of animal entrails

Organic Meal: All non-processed foods

Oriental Oddysey: Chinese food

Osterizer Meal: Put it in a blender as a pre-mix

Meals beginning with P

Pac-Man Snack: Have to gobble food which dangles from strings.

Last Held: XXII

Pancake Breakfast: Pancakes and sausage.

Last Held: XXVII

Pancake Eating Contest: Who can eat the most flapjacks?

Pancake Stack Lunch: Stack 'em up and force 'em down

Pass Along Meal: Pass your plate when the bell sounds

Pass or Play Meal: Liek truth or dare with food

Pass-out Meal: Eat until you pass out

Pasta Meal: A good italian meal

Last Held: VIII

Peasant Lunch: Cheap fare medieval style.

Last Held: XVIII

Pee Wee Herman Meal: Big utensils

Pemmican Picnic: Traditional Indian-dried food

Picnic: Near the beach would be nice

Picnic Lunch: Eaten outdoors - in December, there are no ants.

Last Held: XXIII

Pie Snack: Everything has to be a pie

Last Held: XX

Pioneer Meal: Eat like the early settlers

Pirate Snack: Lots of pirate food

Pirates' booty: Who really knows

Pizza Smorgasbord: Assorted pizzas.

Last Held: XXIX

Pizza Workoff: Lots of low calorie foods

Play with Food: Use food to play checkers or a similar game

Playful Meal: Have fun with your food

Po' Folk Banquet: Eat like the less fortunate

Polish Breakfast: Food you might have for breakfast in Poland,

Last Held: XXIX

Poor Man's Banquet: A banquet of tasty yet inexpensive items.

Last Held: VII

Popcorn Festival: Plenty of popcorn

Last Held: XVII

Popcorn Plethora: Just like being at Ozzie's

Potato Meal: Potatoes in every course

Potluck Lunch: Everybody brings a dish from home.

Last Held: XII

POW Meal: Eat like a prisoner of war

Powder Meal: Everything starts as a powder

Prank Meal: Call at random

Prison Breakfast: Grits in a tin cup

Last Held: XXVII

Puzzle Meal: Put a piece in

Meals beginning with Q

Quiche Cookoff: Pit teams of cooks in a battle to create the best quiche which, of course, real men will not eat.

Meals beginning with R

Raccoon Meal: Items must be washed repeatedly

Rack of Spam: Spam

Radioactive Lunch: Glowing foods

Last Held: XXIV

Rainbow Repast: Each food is a different color.

Last Held: XI

Random Dinner: Roll the die to see what you eat next

Last Held: X

Random Lunch: Roll the die to see what you eat next

Last Held: XIX

Reading Meal: Read while you eat

Records Meal: Who can set a record during the meal

Reverse Meal: Dessert first

Reverse Tool Meal: Cut with your fork

Right Angle Dinner: Must have a right angle

Roadkill Cafe: Cruise Sutton for some tasty treats

Roast Beast Dinner: Seuss inspired roast beef.

Last Held: XXIII

Roget's Meal: Spot the synonyms

Roman Snack: Peel me a grape

Last Held: VII

Rotating Meal: Put your plate on the spinner and go

Ruminant Meal: Chew your cud

Meals beginning with S

Sallee Manger Supper: A tribute to Canadian explorers

Last Held: XXII

Salute To The States Banquet: Fifty dishes, one from each state.

Last Held: XII

Sampler Meal: Everything is a free sample

San Francisco Meal: Fruits and nuts

Scavenger Meal: Go out and scrounge up some food

Scramble Breakfast: When the siren sounds you have to rush to eat and get dresed.

Last Held: XI

See-saw Meal: Try to balance your diet

Seven Bros Banquet: Foods you might find at the Seven Bros market.

Last Held: V

Sharecropper Meal: Share your food with your neighbors

Shovel Lunch: Eat with or off a shovel

Last Held: VII

Silent Breakfast: Shh! How little noise can you make?

Last Held: IX

Silent Lunch: Shh! How little noise can you make?

Last Held: XVII

Singles Meal: Eat over the sink without a plate

Slavery Meal: Arrowmen are organized into teams and one is forced to feed the other.

Sleeping Indian Breakfast: Don't get caught trying to get food

Last Held: XIII

Sling Shot Meal: Food is fired into your mouth

Slop: If it's good enough for Wilbur

Slow-Motion Lunch: How slow can you eat?

Last Held: XV

Slow-Motion Snack: How slow can you eat?

Last Held: XIII

Snack In The Hat: Food served out of a hat.

Last Held: XXIII

Something Is Out There Snack: Alien fare.

Last Held: XXI

SOS Meal: Chipped beef on toast

Soup Line Lunch: Stand in line for soup, sandwich, and salvation.

Last Held: XII

Southern Hospitality Banquet: Southern-style cooking

Last Held: XXI

Space Lunch: Futuristic Foods and Costumes

Last Held: XXI

Spam Meal: Spam, Spam, Spam, wonderful spam, glorious spam

Spanish Embassy Dinner: Spies visit the embassy for some mexican food.

Last Held: XXIV

Spoiled Brat Meal: Eat like the rotten child you are

Sports Meal: Eat foods similar to those one would find in a sporting event.

Stiff Neck Meal: Don't move your neck for this one

Stop and Go Meal: Stop and Go when told

Story-book Meal: Tell us a story while we eat

Streamer Meal: Pull the cord and see what you get

Surfer Meal: Served at the beach of course

Survival Lunch: You get it raw and figure out how to cook

Last Held: IV

Swinging Meal: The tables are swaying

Last Held: XVIII

Synchronized Lunch: Match your partner

Last Held: X

Synchronized Supper: Match your partner

Last Held: XVI

Sze Chuan Meal: Spicy beyond words

Meals beginning with T

Tag Lunch: You're it

Last Held: XII

Tailgate Lunch: Cooked on the tailgate in the parking lot.

Last Held: XXVII

Tarzan of the Apes Lunch: Bananas, coconuts and grapes.

Last Held: XXVI

Tasty Wheat: Matrix-style grits.

Last Held: XXIV

Thanksgiving Feast: Turkey and all the trimmings

Theater Snack: Popcorn and beverages.

Last Held: XVII

Timed Meal: Who can eat fastest? Slowest?

Toaster Breakfast: Everything cooked/prepared in a toaster

Last Held: VI

Traveller's Meal: Eat at the Wayfarer's Inn

Tripoli Dinner: Food from Lebanon

Last Held: XXIX

Trivia Meal: Answer the question or no food

Troi Meal: A cake shaped like the counsellor.

Last Held: XVII

Turkey Roost Dinner: Served while you urinate

Last Held: XVII

TV Dinner: Eat TV dinners while watching TV

Last Held: XIV

Twister Snack: Green Potatoes fork

Last Held: IX

Meals beginning with U

Undercover Dinner: Don't let anyone see what you have

Last Held: XXI

Underground Meal: Eaten and/or prepared underground

Unprocessed Food Meal: Everything is natural

Meals beginning with V

Vendor Lunch: Hot Dogs! Soda! Get your hot dogs here!

Last Held: XIII

Vietnamese Meal: An ethnic choice

Viking Feast: Dress appropriately for Norse fare.

Last Held: XIX

Vulcan Meal: Eat like Mr. Spock

Meals beginning with W

Water Feast: Whatever you want

WC Historic Banquet: One course from each Winter Camp

Weenie Roast: Hot Dogs on a stick

Last Held: XX

Weight Gain Meal: Try to gain the best percentage

Willy Wonka Meal: You can eat everything you see.

Last Held: XVI

Winter Camp Historic Banquet: One unique meal from each Winter Camp

Last Held: XVIII

World Christmas Dinner: Christmas foods from around the world

Last Held: XXIII

Wretched Excess: Too much of a good thing

Meals beginning with X

X-Ray meal: Making use of travelling Winter Campers to ensure every part of the meal is x-rayed (by airport security).

Xylophone Meal: The foods have to be hard and are served on a percussive base.

Meals beginning with Y

Yak Butter Meal: Create a meal using Yak meat.

Yooper Meal: Eat foods from the UP

Meals beginning with Z

Zan-Tec's Snack: Eaten during Zan-Tec's game.

Last Held: XIII

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