(June 30, 2023 at 9:54 pm)Fireball Wrote:(June 30, 2023 at 9:20 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: a/k/a horsecock in USAF lingo.
You know, back when I was in the Navy, we had pretty good chow. I worked at Cape Canaveral on and off for about 3.5 years, (2001-2007) supporting launch ops for a missile defense program. The AF side had nothing but fast food. One could drive to the NASA side and get a decent meal, though. Our AF guys deserved better, but in general even we ate at the AF side, because we had work to do and the extra drive time would take too long. My eldest son is in the AF (he's a TSGT). I'll have to ask him how the food is.
At our home base the chow was good. On deployment it wasn't worth a damn. I was a dorm rat at home -- I ate at the base chow hall twice a week, and and they cooked for us in the fire station 3-4 times a week? That wasn't bad, even our fire station had a solid kitchen built-in and the three-four cooks sent for dinner (and hot breakfast on Sundays, made-to-order omelets) made some decent stuff. I bet the dogfaces would've fell over in delight.
Get outside CONUS, and especially with a scratch crew, it was a different story. I'm eating out of bags, mostly. Our chow halls were contracted local staff and had no idea how to cook for Americans at all. Undone hashed browns, powdered eggs, and a shitpot of hors -- er, fried Spamalot.
God, I sound like such a Whineaboo right now.
