Richard was a Boy Scout.

His troop was very active. They did a lot of fun things, and of course camping was big on the list.

One morning Debbie was fixing breakfast. Frying bacon.

Richard came into the kitchen and asked, “Mom would you make some of the bacon black?”

“Why?” she asked.

“We had some like that at camp last weekend and it was really good.”

So Debbie burned some of the bacon for him.

At breakfast Richard dug in. He had a bit of a funny look, but he ate his black bacon.

He later told Debbie that it hadn’t tasted as good as it had when he was camping out.

And thus Richard learned one of life’s great lessons. Just about everything tastes better out in the open air. This is especially true for breakfast cooked over an open fire. There’s just something about the great outdoors that’s a flavor enhancer for food.

He never asked his momma to cook black bacon again.