Jan 29 2008On The Go: I Can Has Canned Cheezburger?

I am sure this is exactly what the troops want after they have been out in the field all day long, having bullets whiz buy and trudging through the desert. A cheeseburger withouth condiments, from a can. I don't care how much time they spend perfecting it, it will never be good. Burgers were not ment to come from a can and be boiled in water. Don't torturing the soldiers.

"I don't care how much time they spend perfecting it, it will never be good. Burgers were not ment to come from a can and be boiled in water."

All this coming from the douche that wants us to buy our meds online?

what, no ketchup!!!!

http://www.katadyn.com/fileadmin/sites/Katadyn/centraldata/pdf/Newsletter/Katadyn_Swiss_Water_Talk_042007.htm

"The Canned Cheeseburger with roasted onions, a cucumber, and mustard will allow you to relish the full pleasure of being in the freedom of Nature. "

"Due to the beef that this product contains, it is basically not possible for customs reasons to export the Cheeseburger to countries outside the EU."

Nasty.

I'd eat the hell out of one of these. You boil the can, not the cheeseburger, and you can get ketchup in the field (packets don't take up much room). Sign me up

$5+ for a simple cheeseburger that you can get for under a buck? And it's in this condition? Count me out.

I'm most worried by the word "cucumber".

For long hiking trips or camping, this would be pretty nice. I once hiked for 3 weeks straight up the Appalachian trail and let me tell you, the more diversity in survival food the better. You don't want to end up like Alexander Supertramp after eating some potato seeds.

#8: Potato seeds? Even if that were the case, what happened? Did he eat these potato seeds you speak of and later shat them out in the form of french fries?

I guess #8 still believes the old myth that McCandless (I prefer his birth name) died from eating toxic seeds.

@10: What's your theory? I couldn't remember his birth name, the other one is catchier.

@9: Or potato root seeds, can't recall exactly what they called them or what term they used and don't feel like googling for answers.

@11 - it's not *my* theory. Jon Krakauer, who wrote the book "Into the Wild" about SuperCandlePantsTramp, was the one who came up with the "bad seed" theory. The man died of starvation - when found 2 weeks after he died, his body only weighed 67 pounds. That's not a result of the body decomposing, that's starvation. So when Krakauer wrote the bio, he didn't want to write that Chris/Alexander was an idiot who starved to death, so he "theorized" that it was toxic seeds. But the lab tests showed no evidence of this. Then Krakauer changed his story from "toxic seeds" to "mystery fungus".

So if the guy who started the theory doesn't stand by it any longer, then there's a good chance that it wasn't true. And that shows that Krackauer likes to make up stories, so why should the fungus story be true? 67 pounds = starvation.

@12, or damn luddites, the theory you subsribe to is 'your' theory.

Sorry, I haven't given the subject as much attention as you, I'll try to do better next time (or not). I read the book, enjoyed it, saw the movie, enjoyed it (but not as much as the book).

PS: The book painted McCandless as an idiot; or at the very least, portrayed the young man in such an objective light as to allow the reader to form his or her own opinion (my opinion was that he was stupid in the unique way that only extremely priviledged children in capitalist society can be).

whistle - haven't read the book or seen the movie. I remember reading about in the newspaper (that's like a non-virtual website for new, for our younger readers) years ago. saw a preview for the movie, but that's about it.

I don't consider either to be my theory, since I all I know is what I already wrote, and I didn't draw any of those conclusions myself, and I don't have evidence (lab reports, etc) to back up any of the theories. just a messenger in this case, partly cause I have no interest in SuperCandles (the book, the movie, or the real person). Hell, I barely have interest in what I'm typing now (I'm putting myself to sleep, this shit is so boring).

my "theory" (if you want to call it that) is that when someone makes a theory without evidence, and then when evidence is produced to disprove their theory, they make a different theory (again without evidence), then that person shouldn't be listened to.

and my "philosophy" is "tip everybody". no wait, that's not mine. that was Steve Martin in "My Blue Heaven".

@damn luddites: I don't know what all of that said, I'm so young that my attention span only made it through the first three or four words of each paragraph of your essay. But I have suspicion that you couldn't have only read a single newspaper article about the story 'years ago' that included the starvation theory, the debunking of an author's theory through an explanation of his theory redux, and the story of McCandless, himself. The book was written and published well after the incident was in the papers, which was the source of the 'flawed' theory you have taken the time to 'disprove'.

My theory is you and I both have very little going on right now to have visited this thread so many times today. We should be ashamed.

@whistle - I should be more ashamed. I STILL have so little going on, that I came back to see if you responded.

can't remember all the details of how/when I heard about the guy, but maybe it was a follow up article. or maybe I googled it to refresh my memory after seeing a trailer that spurred a feeling of deja vu. or maybe I'm psychic.