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Food on US Navy ships
kristov
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On the History Channel an episode showed the serving of breakfast on an aircraft carrier and that food looked pretty darned good! We have several navy vets here on our boards so I'd like to know just how good the food served on our ships is really is. Are we talking cafeteria food or is it of a much higher quality?
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--the only comparisons are Cruiser Escorts--
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It's the luck of the draw. Some ships are "excellent feeders" most of the time. Others, you would rather bring a lunch if you could. Most feed pretty good on Holidays or when there is a TV crew there.
UMMMMM YUP
The squids complained incessantly about the chow but I thought it was much better than chow than I had been served ashore.
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
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CVA-41 USS Midway (VAW-115 1972-1974). Food was pretty good, as a general rule. After a line period we would usually have Steak and Lobster when we left the line headed for what ever liberty port we were going to. If we were extended on the line you could count on running out of fresh milk and start getting sterilized milk. Sterilized milk tasted like crap, but if someone screwed up and JP-5 (jet fuel) accidentally got into the water system, the sterilized milk improved, but the Kool Aid tasted like crap.[:D]
I was on the Connie CV64 in 73 with VAW 116.I was an AT2.
We had good and bad chow.
Mid Rats were the best. They did go on a roast beef kick for 14 straight days. It was tough and dry. Tasted bad and looked even worse.
Milk ran out on day 7 without fail.
I put bug juice on my cereal instead of sterilized milk. That stuff would gag a snipe.
Steak on most Fridays.
You and I cruised Olongapo at the same time. D Cave [:D]D L club.[:D]
Small world.
AC
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You're killing me.
What was the name of that little restaurant the the SP's on beat 1 ate at?
They had the best Lumpia and pancit after a night of bar crawling.
20P and you were full for hours.
AC
I was on the Connie CV64 in 73 with VAW 116.I was an AT2.
You and I cruised Olongapo at the same time. D Cave [:D]D L club.[:D]
Small world.It is a small world. When the wind is just right, can you still smell S*it River?[:D] We may have fallen down in the same mud holes![:D]
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
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I was on the Connie CV64 in 73 with VAW 116.I was an AT2.
You and I cruised Olongapo at the same time. D Cave [:D]D L club.[:D]
Small world.It is a small world. When the wind is just right, can you still smell S*it River?[:D] We may have fallen down in the same mud holes![:D]
I pulled a 12 hour SP watch on the S*** river bridge.
I don't think the smell ever came out of my Whites.
Did you see what the exchange rate is now?
Sorry about hijacking your post.
I'll stop. But thanks the memories made me smile.
AC
AC
The green bug juice sucked, but once in awhile we had orange and it was good cold. We unreped and vertreped fresh milk all the time so we were seldom without it. Surf and turf was once a month for everyone's birthday and Friday always had fish.
We had soul food days (sweet potatos, chicken, turnip greens), Irish days (potatos and corned beef with cabbage), etc., whatever Cookie felt like making.
Considering everyone else was lucky to have warm cans, sailors eat like kings.
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Back in the Johnson days when the Army was having trouble getting enough people even with the draft, they came up with what we called "Johnson's hire the handicapped program". We weren't very sensitive back then. They were drafting people who normally wouldn't have qualified because of intelligence (lack of).
The Army started complaining that they were getting all of the rejects, so the Navy had to start accepting some of them. One of them ended up on a MSO (Mine Sweeper Ocean) as a Fireman Recruit working for this Master Chief Engineman (Chief at the time).
The MSO's allowance for cooks was one First Class or senior Second Class and one Third Class or striker, and one Mess Cook. The Master Chief said this Fireman was dangerous in the engine room, and he was afraid he would destroy the ship or get himself killed so he wound up being a full time Mess Cook.
The Third Class cook got discharged with no replacement. The Fireman wanted to be a cook striker and the Master Chief was glad to get rid of him, so he talked the First Class into taking him on as a striker.
The first Sunday morning when the Fireman had the duty by himself the menu called for ham omelets. The Fireman didn't know how to make an omelet, so he went down to the berthing compartment in a panic and woke up the First Class cook. He told the cook he had to have some help because he didn't know how to make an omelet and there were people on the Mess Deck wanting to eat. The First Class told him to break out one of those canned hams, cut it up into little cubes, break a couple of eggs in a bowl and beat them up, then mix in the ham and fry it on the grill.
That's exactly what the Fireman did. He cubed a ham, mixed it in with two eggs, fried it on the grill, and served that for omelets. He was back to cleaning bilges by Noon.
My neice is a LT. on the Carrier Enterprize right now. She says the food is not that great. But she is an extremely picky eater too.
Officers have their own mess as do the Chefs[:D]. Our ready room was next to the O's mess and occasionally I would get a peek at their menus. It beat the heck out of the rock potatos served in the enlisted mess. They also used real china and silverware.
Rank has its Privileges'
A friend joined the Navy right out of highschool, he said the Mediterranian tour was best for foods because of all the fresh fruits, etc. that got picked up in Israel...
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Good thread.
Different breweries. Man, that stuff gave us the runs!Memories! If I remember correctly if you looked at the back bottom of the San Miguel bottle there was a 3 and a 4 line address. I don't remember which was which, but one of them was bottled very green and would really give you a bad case of the runs. We had to bingo into Da-Nang one night so we spent several hours drinking at the Red Dog Saloon and all they had was the bad stuff. The next morning as we made our way back to the plane, it hit me. I saw a couple of outdoor toilets and made a beeline for them. After the eruption I noticed there was no toilet paper, so I went through my underwear, T-Shirt, and both socks cleaning up. I had to get into my torso harness and fly back cinched into the seat with only a flight suit protecting me! Man was I glad when we got back to the carrier.
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
The difference between a Fairy tale and a sea story is the fairy tale starts with "once upon a time" and a sea story starts with "this is no s***" [:p]
AC
Well, I'd tell you how good AF food is, but then ya would just complain about us gittin' room service..[:)]
It is funny; being in the Navy most of us thought the Air Force had the best food, etc. After all, I believe their priority for establishing a new base was 1) build the chow hall, 2) build the club, then 3) build the runways and other infrastructure![:D]
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
Sheesh and you swabbies don't feel guilty about wearing campaign ribbons.Man, I knew I should have read the citation, I thought it was a champagne ribbon.[:D]
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!