{"id":6171,"date":"2014-07-18T19:27:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T19:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/18\/oh-man-thats-eatin\/"},"modified":"2014-07-18T19:27:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T19:27:26","slug":"oh-man-thats-eatin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6171","title":{"rendered":"Oh man, that's eatin'"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is the latest in an occasional series of blog posts commenting on impending retirement.
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\nThe late singer and talk-show host Mike Douglas once offered a piece of wisdom that has stuck with me in the decades since I heard him say it.<\/p>\n

He asked a guest on his afternoon talk show: \u201cWhy is it that a hot dog tastes like a filet mignon when you\u2019re eating it at a baseball game?\u201d<\/p>\n

Why, indeed?<\/p>\n

Well, my wife and I have discovered on our brief excursions in our fifth wheel that we can ask essentially the same question about any meal we eat inside our recreational vehicle: Why does our breakfast taste like a gourmet meal prepared at the finest restaurant on the planet?<\/p>\n

OK, so maybe I\u2019m being a bit hyperbolic. So what? I hope you get the point.<\/p>\n

We prepared breakfast at a campsite at Lake Tawakoni State Park east of Dallas and, by golly, it tasted like something that came straight from Paul Prudhomme\u2019s kitchen in New Orleans.<\/p>\n

What was it? Turkey bacon, scrambled eggs and cantaloupe.<\/p>\n

Hey, we aren\u2019t gourmet chefs, but we do enjoy the taste of a meal in our recreational vehicle.<\/p>\n

I trust others who read this blog \u2013 particularly those who also like to travel in their RVs \u2013 can understand what I\u2019m saying here.<\/p>\n

I totally understood Mike Douglas\u2019s question about hot dogs at the ballpark. I\u2019ve consumed more than my share of \u2018em while watching a ballgame. He\u2019s totally right about how they taste well, um, different in that context than they do around the dining room table at home.<\/p>\n

The same can be said about eating in an RV.<\/p>\n

We haven\u2019t done enough of it \u2013 yet \u2013 to become expert commentators on it.<\/p>\n

Maybe we\u2019ll tire of the food cooked on our propane-fired oven once we hit the road more frequently and for longer period of time.<\/p>\n

But I doubt that will happen.<\/p>\n\n

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