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''Grub's ready, fellers! Get it while it's hot!''
Whenever men work in the great outdoors, be they cowboys, miners, lumberjacks or [[The Squad|soldiers]], they work up a big appetite. And someone's got to feed them. In small outfits, the workers might take turns cooking up the vittles, but above a certain population, it makes sense to have a dedicated
In fiction, camp cooks tend to be a source of comic relief, with many a gag about their [[Lethal Chef|horrible cooking]] or [[Klatchian Coffee|coffee]], and their inability to take criticism on the subject. Many camp cooks are older folks, no longer able to do the main work of the camp, but often an ethnic minority is used instead. (In [[Once
May have the appropriate nickname of "Cookie".
A classic "bit" for the camp cook is ringing a metal triangle to announce that dinner is ready.
See also [[Military Moonshiner]] and [[Team Chef]]. Nothing to do with [[Always Camp]]. (In which case, he'd likely insist on being called a chef.)
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Master Swordsman]] Eishun of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' took this role while travelling with Nagi's Ala Rubra. [[Berserk Button|He is very particular about people wasting the food he prepared]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Chop-Chop had this as his speciality for the [[Blackhawk
* "Biscuits" Baker was the camp cook for the Dogiron Crew in the ''Trail Boss, Matt Savage'' western comic from [[DC Comics]].
* A recurring character in ''[[Lucky Luke]]'', one example being in "The Singing Wire".
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== [[Film]] ==
* Jebediah "Cookie" Farnsworth of ''[[Atlantis:
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* "Charlie" in the original ''[[King Kong]]'' movie, a particularly painful faux-Chinese performance.
* Gabby, the chef from the 1947 B-movie ''[[Queen Of The Amazons]]''. Spends most of his time reciting odd poetry and talking with his pet monkey until {{spoiler|he turns out to be the head of an ivory-smuggling operation}}.
* The character of "Cookie" in ''[[City Slickers]]''. Perhaps more memorable for {{spoiler|the eulogy he gives at Curly's burial}} than for his cooking.
* "Cookie" from ''[[Forbidden Planet]]'' had food so bad it drove Robby the Robot to drink.
* Jebediah Nightlinger from ''[[
== Folklore ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Charles "Chow" Winkler from ''The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures'' children's book series. From [[The Other Wiki]]'s [http://tinyurl.com/3zd4gf Tom Swift page]: "A comic relief character...A roly-poly "former chuck wagon cook" born in Texas, he is an older man, beloved for his gaudy western shirts, cowboy hats, bizarre culinary concoctions (like Armadillo Stew), and for such expressions as "Brand my space biscuits!". He accompanies all Swift expeditions (even in outer space) as the Swifts' executive chef."
* The ''[[
* A saying from a [[Known Space]] short story: "Food will win the war, but how do we get the enemy to eat it?" {{spoiler|And then, the main character of the story proceeds to win a battle by hacking the autochef after her ship gets taken.}}
* Corporal Scallot, the quartermaster in ''[[
* Greasy Sae of ''[[The Hunger Games]]'' series becomes the Camp Cook for Area 13. Her specialty is beef stew made from dog meat.
* Zachariah, the African-American ship's cook in ''The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle''. Not a comic figure; the mentor role he plays toward young Charlotte skirts [[Magical Negro]] territory.
* In [[Gene Stratton Porter]]'s ''[[
* In ''Holmes on the Range'', the ranch Big Red and Old Red end up on is served by "the Swede", whose cooking is decent and whose accent is impenetrable.
== [[Live
* Hop Sing of ''[[Bonanza]]''.
* George Washington Wishbone of ''[[Rawhide]]''.
* Pvt. Igor Straminsky of the [[M*A*S*H (
** Technically, Igor just serves the food, he doesn't cook it (as he's quick to remind the other characters when they complain). There was an actual cook who appeared in a couple of episodes, however.
* Airman Darren Becker of ''[[
* Neelix from ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''.
* Salty in ''[[Huge]]''. He manages to make 'fat camp' diet food actually taste good.
== [[Music]] ==
* Utah Phillips's song "The Goodnight-Loving Trail" subverts the comic aspects of this trope by taking a sad and sympathetic view of cowboys who are too old to do anything but cook on the drives, despite lyrics like "With your snake oil and herbs and your liniment too/You can do anything that a doctor can do/Except find a cure for your own goddamn stew." The cowboys dub the cook "The Old Woman"; it's bad enough getting old, without being ridiculed too.
* The Australian folk song "Thargomindah Road" is about a cattle drive told from the point of the view of the camp cook.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Ratlings in [[Warhammer
** [[Only War]] ''Shield of Humanity'' has "Excellent Cook" Talent, allowing to give the whole squad a small bonus to morale tests in the next encounter. Obviously intended, but not limited to the Ratlings, though starting with Trade (Cook) helps to get there.
* In the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' game, Marauding Captain seems to have this job in Freed's army, as shown in his role of [https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Marmiting_Captain Marmiting Captain.]
== [[Theatre]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* One of Ford Cruller's alter egos in ''[[
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', an Alliance expedition stranded on Azuremist Island includes "Cookie" McWeaksauce. Their limited resources have resulted in a somewhat limited menu:
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'''"Cookie" McWeaksauce: '''Yarr, Admiral. Let me think about it... Arrr... It be comin' into focus. It looks like it be succulent pork ribs basted with its own delectable juices and a side o' Captain Sander's Secret Sauce - fer dippin'. And fer dessert we be havin' cheesecake, flown in fresh from Stormwind on the wings o' angels...
'''Admiral Odyseus: '''Wow! Really?
'''"Cookie" McWeaksauce: '''No. Not really...
("Cookie" shoots a chicken.)
'''"Cookie" McWeaksauce: '''It be chicken.
'''Admiral Odyseus: '''I hate you so much, Cookie. }}
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* The travelling Heterodyne show's cook in ''[[
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' has Ambassador Ch'vorthq, formerly a genetically engineered [[Why Am I Ticking?|living bomb]]; he's rather good, but since he got a whisk as a prosthetic for one arm (and didn't complain later, so it was never replaced), food [[When All You Have Is a Hammer|tend to be pureed if at all possible]] ("Some ''vandal'' pureed the ''bananas''").
{{quote|'''Maxim 7''': If the food is good enough the grunts will stop complaining about the incoming fire.}}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' TOS episode "The Sea Haunt". Charlie, the Chinese cook the Quests find aboard a deserted ship.
* Chef Hatchet from ''[[
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