Mooneschadowe's Gulf War Camp Kitchen

Founding and History

From Elsa: At Gulf Wars XI, then-HL Maggie (Magdelena da Cadamosta) made breakfast (I remember pancakes) for the little camp in the "Ghetto" - two parallel lines of Army half-shelter tents where 7 newbies camped just a little bit away from the Mooneschadowe Main camp at Gulf Wars XI. (We had much more land than we knew what to do with back then.)

At Gulf Wars XIII and XIV (I missed GW XII), the plan became a little more formalized: Maggie set up her kitchen resources, and she allowed anyone who would bring their own supplies and clean up after themselves to use her grill and tools. That was mostly successful - except for the part where she still usually had to clean everything before she could use it again. Her stuff was primarily only used by other people for breakfast; I think she made her own dinner, and it sounds right in my head that most everyone went to the Food Court most nights.

Ahead of Gulf Wars XV, Aline and Elsa set up a Gmail account: GW15planning (gmail was invite-only back then - whoa!) so we could collaborate on sending informative emails to new Gulf Wars attendees. I'd have to check the archives to know if that's when we started talking about coordinating food, but that sounds right.

Function Notes

• Meal notes:
  • Lunch consists of sammiches; hopefully sammich ninjas will step-up to make a pile around lunchtime.
  • Breakfast is a hot meal when a cook signs up - heavily featuring scrambled eggs
  • Dinner is always hot - even at a warmer War, we find a lot of comfort in a hot dinner

• Functioning since c. GW 18:
  • Breakfast is a la carte.
  • Lunch and Dinner are pre-reserved and paid-in.

• Starting around GW 32:
  • Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are pre-reserved and paid-in.
  • Must live in Mooneschadowe camp to participate and/or designate someone to hold your plate if you won't be in-camp at dinnertime.

Evolutions

"At Gulf 16, it was darn cold. We sold our food for cloth to fold."

Initially, (c. GW 18-21), Sammich Ninjas made sammiches (sometimes to order, sometimes generic) appear after battles so the War-weary fighters could recover more quickly.

Year	War #	Team
2008	GW 17	Charles the Grey of Mooneschadowe and Elsa von Snackenberg
2009	GW 18	Charles the Grey of Mooneschadowe
2010	GW 19	Ludeweicus von Liechtenstein and Aline Swynbroke
2011	GW 20	Ludeweicus von Liechtenstein and Elsa von Snackenberg
2012	GW 21	Elsa von Snackenberg and Haemon Metellus
2013	GW 22
2014	GW 23
2015	GW 24
2016	GW 25
2017	GW 26
2018	GW 27
2019	GW 28
2020	GW 29	Cancelled for COVID on the Thursday before
2021	GW --	Cancelled for COVID - this time with more notice
2022	GW 30	Elsa and Séigíne
2023	GW 31
2024	GW 32
2025	GW 33
2026	GW 34