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Originally Posted by Captain Norman
Im interested in knowing what kinds of foods u guys eat, whether u always bring hotsauce with u to improve it if it sucks :P, and whether or not anything they make is good.
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We ate well. Too well in fact. You could REALLY pack the weight on if you were not careful. All it took was a few barbs and you would start to watch what you ate. If that did not work, you HAD to do something when you could not get into your uniform. It was not like you could go down to the PX and buy new ones.
The food depended on who was reading the reciepe cards. If you had someone who did it all by the book, then things were bland but, as we used to say, 'It makes a turd'. If you had a cook who was not afriad to play with the reciepe you could have some REALLY outstanding food.
As for types of food?
Breakfast was mostly scrambled eggs, muffing, bacon sometimes, grits & grits, oatmeal, and sometimes pancakes.
Lunch and dinner? Well,I remember LOTS of corned beef, or, as we called it Babboon Ass. Fried Chicken, Hamburgers (sliders), shrimp, pasta and other pretty ordinary items. I remember pizza was every friday night. Beanie Weenies or coldcut sandwiches were common on the midrates.
You have things that you could freeze a LOT of, be high in nurient content, and be as compact as possible. If you could not find it frozen, it had to be availble in #10 cans. Frying was used a LOT. If the deep fat fryer was broke, the variety of meals drops WAY down.
If you want to be a RICH man, figure out how to can FRESH lettuce and other easily perishible items. When a bubblehead hits port, the first thing he grabs is NOT a beer, but a FRESH glass of milk and the largest FRESH salad you could lay your hands on. Then you wash it down with a beer.