In a message dated 6/18/01 10:39:39 AM CST, [log in to unmask] writes:

<< No; travelling isn't an emergency.  It's a neccesity.  Pemmican is what
 Indians took along for the ride.  And food shortages are pretty much par of
 the course, whether you're talking a tribal people running low on game and
 plants or a soccer mom almost out of groceries.  Early people found ways to
 eat some now and save some for later; soccer mom's buy big refrigerators.
 Same sh*t, different millenium.

 >>

I think that maybe pemmican was used also because it could keep for a long
time without spoiling....not just because of food shortage, etc.