(August 11, 2017 at 5:40 pm)Fireball Wrote:(August 11, 2017 at 5:32 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: It tasted like an old boot smells. Also you'd be surprised the shit you have to eat in the army. I'm pretty sure they slipped us an old boot or two at some point.
Creamed Chipped Beef on Toast Points, AKA "Shit on a Shingle". Man, I hated that shit. I'd go hungry, first. In the Navy, we didn't get it inflicted on us much, and we usually had other choices.
Yeah that shit is nasty. Seasoning? Ever heard of it? That shit was like wallpaper paste.
To this day I cannot eat chili mac. It's not that it's bad per se, but after sleeping in a barracks with a platoon of guys who all had chili mac is an experience, and not in a good way.
The chow at Redstone Arsenal was actually pretty good. Lots of choices and they had a couple of short order cooks for doing breakfast, burgers, or whatever. More of a cafeteria than a mess hall, really.