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  • I used to work at a summer academic program. I don’t know how expensive it was, but some of the students were quite wealthy.

    One 13 year old international student was homesick, and to try to get them to agree to stick it out, their parents promised to buy them a new car if they stayed.

    The food was generally good enough to pass for restaurant food or a corporate cafeteria. It was on a college campus, so I think it may have been the same staff and repertoire as the school year. Sometimes there would be something more interesting like fried plantains. The staff would flock to it and the kids would ignore it.

    Kids by and large didn’t care. Some still stuck to their beige diets aggressively; only eating hot dogs, plain chicken, white bread, vanilla ice cream, etc.

    One year before the kids showed up there was a chilled strawberry and mint soup that I’ll still occasionally try to find a recipe for. I don’t even care for mint.



  • paraplu@piefed.socialtoHiking@lemmy.worldHiking in Jeans?
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    24 days ago

    I’m coming at this from the perspective of someone who has primarily hiked in the northeastern US, but I expect a lot of other places can also have surprise rainstorms or sudden temperature drops in the middle of summer.

    Jeans don’t handle wet well. They aren’t very good at insulating while wet, dry slowly, and will be very heavy while wet. These problems aren’t unique to jeans, but jeans are much more popular than other garments with the same issues.

    It’s not unreasonable to turn away folks who show up in jeans. Especially if they gave advance notice.

    Even if it were unreasonable, it’s their club. You can find others to hike with if you’d like to wear jeans.