CF Dining Facilities (DFAC)

[Bringer]

I‘m at WATC right now and you can have as many helpings as you like. Just flash your meal card as you enter the building and you‘re good to go.

The food is pretty good too, better than the mess at Esquimalt/Work Point. Lots of fresh veggies on the salad bar and the food actually has spices.

No complaints, other than Wainwright itself.

 

[Tpr.Orange]

we had our
mens christmas dinner last night and let me tell you mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm soooo good...

we had turkey and whipped potatoes gravy stuffing wine, salad and so on and so on.

 

[Bert]

Are you referring to the men or the dinner?

 

[portcullisguy]

My meal experiences since joining the CF as a Reservist in early 2002 have been short but wide-ranging.

BMQ weekends (aka "Hayboxes"): Food varied from crap to good. Portions were never a problem, and there were usually salads, desserts, etc. I hated breakfasts after a while... all the grease. Ewww!

IMP‘s: I hardly eat anything in there, and usually have to supplement with granola bars, pepperoni sticks, etc. The pasta entrees are usually the most edible, but I mainly eat the fruit, dessert, bread, PB & jam, and the powdered soups/cereals, etc.

Lunch Boxes: Borden gave us pretty good lunch boxes, two sandwiches, juice or milk, fruit cup, etc. Not bad, and at least better than eating an IMP. Meaford‘s boxes were crap. Apaprently over in Ottawa they get cans of pop in their lunch boxes, luck SOB‘s.

Meaford Summer Kitchen: Not bad, but they were a bit naziish about extra desserts. They had pizza almost every day, but I rarely ate it. The greasy, heavy foods made me sleepy during the lectures, so I stuck to lighter courses and more greens whenever they looked decent. I think you could get seconds, but usually there was no time.

Meaford Mess: The main dining hall was awesome, any time of the day, and it was all-you-can-eat. The only exception was the day of the power outage when they served us up some garbage. Shame, too, we just came out of the field that day and I could‘ve used a heaping pasta dish or something.

Petawawa Mess: Was there only briefly on day 1 of Milcon 2003, but the food was fantastic, great variety of stuff, and you could watch a big screen TV while you vacuumed down your meal. The only drawback was I didn‘t have a meal card, and had to pay cash. But the prices were reasonable and portions good.

Christmas Dinners: The 48th Christmas dinner was last Friday, and they served us generous portions of haggis, turkey, stuffing, mashed tatties, and boiled-to-death veggies. I could‘ve used more haggis. Outstanding meal, catered by civvies. Can‘t wait till next year!

 

[Bert]

Its one of those special things in life.. dont ask... just eat it.

Check out before lunch:
http://www.smart.net/~tak/haggis.html

 

[Danjanou]

I gotta ask what is haggis?

Ok Major just for you. A haggis is a little tiny four legged mammal native to the highlands of Scotland. It‘s kind of like a ferret only with feathers. When properly prepared it is a delicacy but as you can guess an acquired taste.

They are fast little creatures and would be hard to catch except for one cruel feature in their genetic make up. Because their normal habitat is the sides of heather clad hills, Darwinisn has forced them to adapt to this in a most unique way. One set of legs is shorter than the others. (I mean one side as in right of left, not front and back). This works perfectly while scurrying around the sides of hills. However if you can lure them onto level ground they tend to keel over and can be easily trapped.

I hope this helps you in better understanding yet another aspect of our unique Celtic Canadian culture.

 

[Michael Dorosh]

The haggis is also known for its unique social groupings; they live in clans, rather like the human inhabitants of the Highlands used to. They choose their leader based on how colourful his plumage is; generally the haggis with the most different colours among his feathers is accepted as the leader.

I am sure a google search would provide you with more information; the haggis has a long and interesting history. It is because of haggis that Highlanders wear no underpants...but I guess we can‘treally give away all our secrets, now, can we?

 

[Veteran`s son]

 

[Danjanou]

Thank you Michael. I knew I forgot a few pertinent facts there. I really must pop that tape I made of the Discovery Channel episode "The Haggis, Feathered Ferret of the Highlands" into the VCR tonight.

 

[Gibson]

"Beautiful Plumage" just like it‘s cousin the Norwegian Blue.

 

[chrisf]

I‘ve been told that CFB Goose Bay is excellent as far as the mess is concerned... of course, this was told to me by a couple of guys who ate their after some winter-indoc...

 

[Spartan]

I‘ve eaten in 17 Wing Junior Ranks
4 Wing Cold Lake- All Ranks
CFB Esquimalt- Work Point-
I‘d say out of those...they‘re all good

 

[portcullisguy]

Poor guy, S_Baker asks a simple question, and gets a load of smart assed replies...

Ahh... but they were pretty funny!

In a nutshell, S_Baker, haggis is a Scottish traditional delicacy.

It is a mixture of oatmeal, onion, garlic, pepper, and some unidentifiable meat (usually kidney and/or liver), stuffed into a sheep‘s stomach and roasted.

I have been told there is also vegetarian haggis, although don‘t ask me what it‘s cooked in, if not sheep‘s stomach. Like a sausage or hot dog, the ground meat filling needs a case to keep it all together.

It sounds gross, but I assure you it is very tasty!

 

[Slim]

Geez...You guys gotta take it easy on the Major. After all he is sort of our guest on the site. And he does make an effort to "talk to us" pretty often, despite some of the things that have been said around here.

 

[Thompson_JM]

Hmm id say in my 5 meager years as a Mo, ive eaten a few army dinners.

IMP‘s in my opinion some are good and some are bad, it all depends on what you get.

Hayboxes: In borden youre usually ok. in meaford, uh yeah.. bring a sandwich... you end up getting creative with some of the food, turning as much as you can into sandwich form, but usually its all edible. if nothing else.

Messes: Meaford - Nothing special. food is pretty good most days, but every now and again you get something nasty.
Borden - borden has two messes, the Airforce mess, out by the runway, and the old mess by the Rod and Gun club. both are pretty good, but the Air Force Mess wins in the end. its a little nicer inside, and it seems as if the food is just better too.

Pettawawa - oh my god.... it is without a doubt the best food in the CF... the few occations ive eaten in there were like slices of heaven. its probabbly the nicest of the messes ive been in.


yeah i know MSE OPs are always in the Rear with the Gear. but then, wouldnt that mean we obviously know the good stuff from the bad?

 

[Bert]

My dad was stationed at CFS Foymount, a pinetree-line site, during the early to mid 1960s. Apparently the cooks who served in the Sgts‘ Mess prepared an amazing spaggetti dish known as "Foymount spaggetti". A thick spiced meat and tomato sauce was poured over spaggetti noodles. CF personnel from as far as Petawawa and Ottawa would chopper into Foymount for this dish according to my dad.

 

[patt]

i was talkin to my boss (i work at a mess) and she was telling me that the messes are going back to the swipe card system!

 

[sgtdixon]

Ive Eaten at the Following Messes from time to time;
4 Wing All Ranks
CFB Esquimalt Work Point
Garrison Edmonton Junior Ranks
and I got to hit up the Junior Ranks in Comox once and out of those id say
4 Wing does it the best, especially there hashbrowns... goldurn best brown I ever had

 

[GerryCan]

The odd time I find myself complaining about the food we are served and have to step back and think again about what I‘m complaining about. In Bosnia we have really good food, other than the fact that it‘s pretty much all deep fried, we go to the field and eat cake and chocolate bars etc. etc. Comparing to US army in a whole we have it a lot better, other than the Burger King they have in Sarejevo and who knows where else. Our hard Rats aren‘t too bad either, better than any other countries Rats I‘ve tried.
To put it quite simply, it‘s very easy to get fat in the CDN Army...especially CFB Trenton and Camp Drvar!