# The Best Thing You Ever Ate **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 14, 2014, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-thing-you-ever-ate/690786 "2014-06-14T17:55:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 28
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-thing-you-ever-ate/690786/28 "2014-06-15T02:28:45Z")
From a previous thread… > [@Tell me about the best meal you've ever had](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-the-best-meal-youve-ever-had/535624/12): > > Fried potatoes and onions with Velveeta processed cheese food. > > I’ve eaten in very expensive restaurants and had exquisite meals. My Mother is an amazing cook and has amazed the entire family more times than I could count. I have a few dishes I can honestly say I have damn near perfected. > > But on a trip to [Quetico Provincial Park](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetico_Provincial_Park) I had the best meal of my life. > To make a very long story only long, several high school friends and I were on a 10 day survival camp trip. Due to circumstances I won’t go into here we were out of food by day 7. In Quetico no radios are allowed so with no way to call for help were SOL with only one option - a 3 day trek back to base without food. Now 3 days w/o food would be bad enough, but we had to cover quite a bit of ground in those 3 days, normally burning a LOT of calories. > > Late on day 9 as we were looking to make camp, we came across a bunch of guys from Canada who took mercy on us and gave the 8 of us a 5 lb. bag of potatoes, a 5 lb. bag of onions and a 2 lb. brick of Velveeta. > > Never before has food tasted like that. I hope it never does again. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-thing-you-ever-ate/690786)._