Food in the Military (split from POTUS47 adm thread)

[daftandbarmy]

I spent six months eating at a British cookhouse in Afghanistan. Breakfast was usually good. I took every other meal at the Gurkha line for four months until they left. The remaining two months were pretty dire. Other deployments where I ate in KAF DFACs had pretty good food.

Although pretty plain, I can't recall any food in a British Cookhouse that I would classify as 'disgusting'.

Except the 'day after' curry made from leftover beef. It was always like chewing a meal made up of small rubber cubes.

The troops never saw a chicken curry, purpose made, and it almost kicked off a revolution at one point as I recall.

Those white colonialists are fastidious about the quality of their south Asian dining room staples...

 

[OldSolduer]

Believe it or not CFB Shilo was great.

Dundurn was very good as well.

 

[RangerRay]

Hell, I liked Wainwright hayboxes…

 

[NavyShooter]

Back in '97, I was staying in Pirbright Camp competing at the Bisley matches with the CAF Team. We ate at the mess - and oh my, it was terribad.

Until.

We took the cooks out on the town with us on a Friday night, and when we got back to camp from the pub, we convinced him to draw the keys from the guardhouse and open up - he flashed up the galley for us, and we demonstrated how to cook a proper over easy egg.

Their solution - a metal rail at the edge of the grill enabling a literal puddle of hot oil on top of the grill surface.

Our solution - a hot grill, a kiss of butter, and a flipper. The cook was amazed....he'd always been taught that the eggs would stick to the grill without the puddle of oil.

After that night, every morning one of their grills was setup for "Canadian Eggs" and we enjoyed that considerably. WORTH the beer it cost.

They'd do their deep fried toast at the same time as they did their eggs up in the puddle of oil on the grill top.

shudder

 

[AmmoTech90]

Although pretty plain, I can't recall any food in a British Cookhouse that I would classify as 'disgusting'.

It wasn't disgusting, but compared to the Gurkha cooks, 16 AA chefs couldn't keep up. Never really saw a chef at a FOB.

 

[quadrapiper]

Seems the department gets expensive tastes around September no matter who is president. Here is a article from the Daily Caller published through the Maine Wire. Seems like they have similar need of seafood and furniture.
Article Link

I’m gonna call bullshit on framing the foodstuffs as extravagance. The occasional good meal in theatre/on deployment is long established as a creature comfort for the troops.

The Daily Caller/Maine Wire's framing of salmon as a luxury item seems odd, unless it's some sort of East Coast culinary weirdness. Not exactly a regular diner at CAF steamlines, but seem to remember seeing salmon on a moderately regular basis.

 

[CBH99]

First time I ever had Apple Crisp was as a recruit doing my QL2, circa 1999/2000...the food served throughout my 11 years in was always pretty good. No complaints at all here

Whole deployed I had the opportunity to eat at a mobile field kitchen the Portugese brought with them. Holy cow!! 10/10

 

[daftandbarmy]

Back in '97, I was staying in Pirbright Camp competing at the Bisley matches with the CAF Team. We ate at the mess - and oh my, it was terribad.

Until.

We took the cooks out on the town with us on a Friday night, and when we got back to camp from the pub, we convinced him to draw the keys from the guardhouse and open up - he flashed up the galley for us, and we demonstrated how to cook a proper over easy egg.

Their solution - a metal rail at the edge of the grill enabling a literal puddle of hot oil on top of the grill surface.

Our solution - a hot grill, a kiss of butter, and a flipper. The cook was amazed....he'd always been taught that the eggs would stick to the grill without the puddle of oil.

After that night, every morning one of their grills was setup for "Canadian Eggs" and we enjoyed that considerably. WORTH the beer it cost.

They'd do their deep fried toast at the same time as they did their eggs up in the puddle of oil on the grill top.

shudder

Did they ladle a couple of hot stewed tomatoes on top, as well as a scoop of beans?

Cor Blimey, drooling now