Sorry I Took The Day Off Yesterday

I trust you'll understand.

The Beast needs to be fed.

About a dozen hobos from across the country and more than 100 civilians converged at an old quarry in Akron this weekend to camp out, show off their wares and ride trains.

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This summer's meeting is in advance of the national hobo gathering in August in Britt, Iowa.

The park district has a large collection of hobo memorabilia, and set up interpretational exhibits throughout the woods on things like using tin cans for cooking and setting up a hobo camp, or "jungle."

The gathering's non-hobo attendees rode a train in, ate authentic hobo stew and saw "tramp art" being made: rail road spikes turned into knives, whistles and cooking implements.

Authentic hobo stew. Delicious. Here's the recipe:

One authentic hobo, minced
Thirty cans of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup
Salt to taste
Cillinatro, to give your hobo stew that gourmet feel

Yum.

Anyone have a spare room near Britt, Iowa this August? And a spare crawlspace and a spare meat-smoking shack?

Thanks to IllTemperedCur.

posted by Ace at 01:57 PM

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