How to cook for yourself when you're stuck in a potato truck

So, this one time: we took a piece of 2 inch PVC about 10 inches long, made 4 sheet metal fins and screwed them to the tube and glued a heavy rubber cap on the top.

Then we took our handy 1/2 inch iron gas pipe with a cap screwed on the end, drilled an 1/8 inch hole in the side just above the cap. I suppose it was about a foot long. Stuffed it into the ground in the back yard, put some cannon fuse in the hole, filled the pipe with black powder, put the rocket on top and light.

Boom! That projectile went straight up out of sight and whistled all the way back down. We couldn't see it. Hit the picnic table about 10 feet away and broke a board out of it.

My dad and neighbor did the construction at my suggestion. It was cool.
 
Oh boy... stories of youthful stupidity lol!!

I have several of those.

I should not even have all my limbs. I suppose I'm lucky, given the odds
 
Cadorman said:
Oh crap. We tack welded beer cans together only leaving the top on the bottom can. Punch a hole in the side of the bottom can, fill with lighter fluid and hit the hole with a lighter. Boom!
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I made a couple of tennis ball cannons like that when I was a kid, except we just duct-taped the cans together. A friend of mine used too much lighter fluid and a tongue of flame shot out the hole in the bottom can and singed all the hair on his forearm!

Ahh...the foolishness of youth.

It's a wonder some of us survived!
 
It's 11:37pm here, and this outfit's 2019 potato harvest is in the bag.

It's been an intense six weeks, and I'm beat.

I'll see you all when I awaken from a few days' slumber and recuperation. Looking forward to being able to go to jam nights again. No more MREs (manifold ready edibles) for me this year.
 
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