Matthew's speech

Communication Merit badge speech. POWER PAUSE!!!! Eat you’re pear. Begin speaking. :D A scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent and most importantly ALWAYS HUNGRY!... And since we scouts are always hungry, I’m going to talk about food. There are three different kinds of food… there are, good foods, bad foods, and Okay foods….. Let me share with you some things about the Okay foods first. First of all some of my favorites, potato chips and ice cream, mmmm, we all love these things right….. These things and other things like them taste good but are not the best for you, they are under the okay category which means that they are okay once in a great while. But if you eat them all the time and over consume them, these things have fattening fats that make you fat, and therefore you will be fat, however good tasting they may be. Now let us move on to category number two…. The bad foods….. One of the worst is, now prepare yourselves, coke a cola, I know, I know your thinking “What! Did you just call my coke bad!” and yes that is what I just said. Let me share with you a true story.. About coke. There was this guy, who sued coke a cola, why? Because he found mouse parts in his coke….Yeah gross…. Coke a cola told him that if he had left it on the shelf for another week or so the mouse parts would have dissolved. Are you seriously going to sit there and drink mouse parts?.... all carbonated drinks like coke could have mouse parts in them, and if they will dissolve mouse parts they will dissolve your stomach as well. Now on that sorry note, let us move on to the good foods. You probably already know what I am going to say, yes everything your mother has told you. Yes fruits and veggies. Like apples and pears,… like the one I just ate. Carrots and cucumbers and other fresh stuff. These things are good for you as well as taste good. The right mixture of veggies and seasonings creates a tasty and satisfying meal. As we know all scouts cook over the fire, sometimes the things we make taste good other times…. they don’t. but we learn what tastes good together and what does not and also not to burn it. When we go to scout camps, a good thing to take for food is canned soups and such, except in the case of a backpacking trips cause they are much too heavy…. For backpacking trips you will want dried foods and other light foods, just make sure they are good and healthy….. And on other fun camping trips duchoven cooking is the best, my dad’s duchoven potatoes are the best, mmmmm. Now in closing I would just like to remind you to choose your foods carefully, because some foods have fattening fats that make you fat, some are just gross and could make you really sick over time, and most important there are good foods that help you grow and maintain your health. I hope you have enjoyed listening and have learned something… Thank you.