# I've never eaten s'mores. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 28, 2011, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-eaten-smores/583521 "2011-05-28T02:52:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-eaten-smores/583521/21 "2011-05-28T11:25:57Z")
> [@Private\_Bin](#): > > In Australia, we only have marshmallow! And we cook it with stick from ground! And we set them on fire so they go black on the outside and melted in the middle and this makes us stronk. And then we drink the beer and that makes us dronk. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-eaten-smores/583521/22 "2011-05-28T12:45:48Z")
That’s ok. I’ve eaten them many times and every time wondered why people bother. They’re not very good (at least as made at a campfire). Here’s what I recommend: dump the chocolate and use peanut butter instead. Either simply use peanut butter, marshamallow and graham crackers or break apart a Nutter Butter an put the two halves, cookie-side down, on the rocks around the fire to toast while toasting a marshmallow and then squish it all back together. Far superior to any kind of smore I’ve made while camping. ---
**Author:** ![classyladyhp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5ac83/32.png) [@classyladyhp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/classyladyhp)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-eaten-smores/583521/23 "2011-05-28T12:46:57Z")
I have never eaten them either:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-eaten-smores/583521/24 "2011-05-28T12:49:04Z")
I have. You’re missing nothing. Had you said Oreo’s I would have told you to get to a store. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-eaten-smores/583521/25 "2011-05-28T13:31:44Z")
Had 'em, didn’t like 'em. Or at least didn’t like having to clean up the gooey mess after each bite. You’re not missing much. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-eaten-smores/583521/26 "2011-05-28T13:33:24Z")
> [@Private\_Bin](#): > > In Australia, we only have marshmallow! And we cook it with stick from ground! And we set them on fire so they go black on the outside and melted in the middle and this makes us stronk. That’s exactly how I had them when I was a kid. Except we used a straightened hanger instead of a stick. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-eaten-smores/583521/27 "2011-05-28T19:52:06Z")
I’ve had them, and really, they’re not all they’re made out to be. The great thing about s’mores isn’t the chocolate, Graham cracker, and marshmallow themselves. The great thing about them is that when you’re eating them, you’re sitting around a campfire with a bunch of friends laughing and having a good time. Frankly, I’m not even really sure how they got established as _the_ campfire food, since they’re really hard to make in a campfire, too: The marshmallow is natural enough, of course, but nobody’s ever come up with a good way to get the chocolate all melty using a campfire. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-eaten-smores/583521/28 "2011-05-28T21:46:10Z")
The Kelty sweets, one buys in Kelty. Melt in my hands all melty-melty. 🙂 With apologies to Steve Martin, who was the inspiration for this little bit of doggerel. (As was **Chronos** in his post above, of course!:)) Quasi ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-eaten-smores/583521/29 "2011-05-28T22:34:17Z")
My name is John, and I’m a s’mores virgin. Maybe I had it wrong, but when I was growing up it was a girl thing. I was in Boy Scouts, and I can’t imagine us doing s’mores. And I’ve never been much into marshmallows, except roasted on the end of stick. ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-eaten-smores/583521/30 "2011-05-29T00:00:43Z")
I’ve had two I think. One when I was a girl scout, meh. Once one my kid was a girl scout, meh. I like toasted marshmallows, chocolate and used to lurvvvv me some graham crackers in milk. Altogether, not so much. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-eaten-smores/583521/31 "2011-05-29T00:04:24Z")
I love smores, but I love them even more when they’re made with dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate. They’re not quite so sticky-sweet that way. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-eaten-smores/583521/32 "2011-05-29T00:11:41Z")
> [@missred](#): > > You were a deprived child, **Johnny**! > > Did you never go to summer camp? Have a cookout? Build a fire to roast things, like, ummm, weinies and marshmallows at the beach? > > Tell ya what…should you ever get to middle Tennessee, you are invited to experience S’mores around a campfire with a bunch of us musicians and bikers. Guitar or bike optional. Graham crackers, Hershey bars and marshmallows are not. I don’t know about Johnny, but I’d hate to find myself in a dark camping ground with a gang of S’mores eating bikers. Scary! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-eaten-smores/583521/33 "2011-05-29T00:20:05Z")
You’re not missing much; very overrated. Not worth the stickypalooza they cause. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-eaten-smores/583521/34 "2011-05-29T00:39:32Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it! You know, Abe, that’s 500 gallons per mile. You might want to consider a tune-up. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-eaten-smores/583521/35 "2011-05-29T00:42:59Z")
I haven’t eaten them either. I am not a fan of marshmallow, but I love chocolate covered graham crackers 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-eaten-smores/583521/36 "2011-05-29T00:57:05Z")
Typical kid snack. Sweeter the better. I havent eaten S’mores since college. Probably way too sweet for me now. As I age, I prefer simple deserts that aren’t too sweet. Like a unfrosted pudding cake. Don’t want or like the sugar glaze icing anymore. Thankfully my grocery sells them unfrosted. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-eaten-smores/583521/37 "2011-05-29T02:43:11Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > I don’t know about Johnny, but I’d hate to find myself in a dark camping ground with a gang of S’mores eating bikers. > > Scary! 😃 The company is usually better than the S’mores. 😃 I don’t eat them often anymore (damn Type II diabetes!) but a couple of times a year, when the group gets together for campouts, I do indulge. ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-eaten-smores/583521/38 "2011-05-29T02:51:02Z")
Me either, nor am I interested. I’m more into salts than sweets. I’d rather BBQ a pickle and try that instead. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-eaten-smores/583521/39 "2011-05-29T03:04:45Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Maybe I had it wrong, but when I was growing up it was a girl thing. Now that you mention it, I do STR that the first time I heard of s’mores they were associated with Girl Scouts. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-eaten-smores/583521/40 "2011-05-29T03:08:22Z")
They make S’mores Pop-Tarts. Honestly. They’re great fresh from the toaster along with a tall, cold glass of milk. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-eaten-smores/583521.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-eaten-smores/583521.md?page=3)