Draft:Tasty Little Buddies

Tasty Little Buddies, or TLB's, are a campfire dessert made of croissant dough, butter and various toppings, cooked over an open fire using a stick. This dessert is essentially an Anglicized version of campfire bannock, but instead of the dough being mixed from ingredients, Tasty Little Buddies always are made from pre-made grocery dough, commonly pillsbury croissant dough.

Etymology and Origins

Because it is instant, inexpensive, and stores well for camping, the dessert became popularized as 'tasty little camping buddies', or 'tasty little buddies'. It is more common in the Western Canadian coast, enjoying widespread favour as a campfire snack that is less sweet than conventional camping desserts such as s'mores or marshmallows, and requires a longer time to roast.

Preparation

Tasty Little Buddies consist of wrapped pastry dough over the end of a thick stick, roasted over the fire. After being cooked they are filled with a variety of sweet or savoury items generally on-hand when camping, including butter, berries, jam, meats, or fruit. They can be made with a variety of pre-made pastry doughs, but croissant is most common as it holds together while cooking and doesn't melt, such as with Pillsbury cookie dough.

In Popular Culture

Tasty Little Buddies are referenced as a snack that assisted John Edgar in completing his dissertation on T-cell differentiation. In the acknowledgments, it is written that the snack "Never ceases to amaze me".