1. If you walked in with low expectations....you were always happy.
2. Yes, there were always random food poisoning events (1977 @ Sheppard AFB...they had to shutdown the chow-hall for a weekend and throw everything out).
3. There's a rotating schedule of x-dinners.....once you figured this out....you could mark off 12 evening dinners a month as 'crap'.
4. Approximately 50-percent of the time....whatever pastry they had for breakfast....was probably 3 days stale/rock-hard.
5. Chicken always came out of a freezer-bag and was crap.
6. In the first five years of my military time.....for lunch, I either ate grilled ham/cheese sandwiches or hamburgers. It was the only thing they made in front of you....that you felt was not screwed-up.
7. Mid-night chow was probably the best meal to attend...but around 1980...they made a rule you had to be on duty and in a uniform.
8. I can't think any coffee worse, than chow-hall coffee.
9. From my first ten years of using their 'service'....I got the impression that none of the chow-hall cooks were skilled in anything other than opening cans and heating food.
10. The best chow-hall I ever used....was a the Incirlik-Turkey operation....appropriately named 'Satans-Inn'. Most of the cooks were Turks and they were pretty liberal with herbs/spices.
No comments:
Post a Comment