Chow hall food:

About the military or insurance?

Mine has been super hit or miss. In the Marines it was typically glorified MREs that tasted like nothing, and in the Army it's been okay to tasty but low quantities. Sometimes I wish I'd just get an MRE and call it a day.

Funnily in the Marines it was common to only have MREs with maybe one hot meal a week in the field, but the Army if soldiers didn't get their two hot meals a day it was a constant bitch fest.

>tfw I actually long for the feeling of inclusion these people experience
>people who eat together shit together
>the feeling of having a second family
>will never be able to see the world
feels awful

I want to marry tomato user.

Swoon!

I have 2 friends who just got out of the military

One unironically believes the earth is flat and the other is an alcoholic burnout

Chances are you'd still be just as much of an awkward retard in it as you'd be out of it

does anybody know what that beef thing with bread on top was?
looks like something i had in school which was a sloppy joe but with bread

Shit on a shingle

It's not to bad for awkward fuck. As long as you're not so retarded you put others life in danger you'll eventually find friends. You are pretty much guaranteed to either become addicted to tobacco or booze though.

Same the only ones i have been to that were shit were at air force bases and the best has been on naval bases

Hey Cookie, do you know why they call cooks fitters and turners?
'Cos you fit food into pots and turn it into shit.

I always felt bad for the CS (Culinary Specialist) marines when i was in. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, working over 12 hours a day, every fucking day. And what really sucks the most is that they are mixed in with civilian cooks and servers, many of which are retarded because the contracted company, Sodexo, literally hires retarded people through some government help the retards program.

I've wanted to be a cook in the Navy hut that job guy laughed at me and said I had a choice of being Nuke or CT.

no wonder the food is shit they are camouflaged in the kitchen how do they even see what the fuck each other are doing?

Ramsay : BEANS! NOW!
marine : yes chef!!
Ramsay : WHO SAID THAT

xD

Have an upboat!

guaranteed bites

the guy who runs the kitchen where i work was a cook in the british army, got to master chef or whatever the rank was. good fucking money, got a pension out of it, served in yugoslavia, afghanistan, iraq, falklands and now he just yells at filipino retards.

not a bad life

What is that brown sludge with corn supposed to be?

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the thousand island dressing stare

It looks worse than prison food.

kind of irks me the way they go through all the stages of processing a single item before moving onto the next one.

like why not open all the tins of flour together and then dump em into the mix? or why not pull the leaves off of all the celery stalks and then proceed to chop them so that you dont waste time transitioning between the different tasks numerous times?

either they decided to do it like that to demonstrate for the camera or they are know nothing grunts that were called in to help out.

They are soldiers, not professional chefs.

>or they are know nothing grunts that were called in to help out.
usually this, with a few actual cooks trying to manage everything

Its odd seeing a professional kitchen staffed with people in non kitchen attire.

In the UK Military we always used to complain about the military chefs, so the bosses listened to our complaints an introduced a new system run by contractors making a profit....

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dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3508005/Soldiers-shared-photographs-disgusting-meals-including-maggot-infested-tomatoes-mouldy-eggs-warned-senior-staff-face-legal-action.html

Fuck off those retards are there to make us laugh

Here in Finland the food ladies made absolute garbage. We got much better food during exercises made by the military cooks in the forest.

>they are mixed in with civilian cooks and servers, many of which are retarded

Surely they fit right in with the Marines?

How do you even make a fried egg mouldy?

Through hard practice and dedication.

either

So what is this? Raw mince and coagulated snot?

I believe it's an attempt at a cheeseburger

The Daily Mail article has a picture of a mouldy hard boiled egg; now that's some magical shit they have going on.

Sodexo was my school lunch provider. There's a reason I stopped eating lunch in 9th grade.

:)

I wonder if it was moldy before cooking.

This. They are for the most part welfare queens who get free meals, free room and board, pay for doing next to nothing, and retire at 40 so they can set around and leach off the taxpayer for another 40 years.

because if you don't pay they'll send someone like him to kick your teeth in and put you in debtor's prison.

You should run for office

I hate these fags

Prior USAF here. chow hall was usually decent, at least back in 2004. ham & cheese omelets for breakfast, sandwiches and chili for lunch/dinner.

I always thought it was weird i couldnt shit the first few days at bootcamp but apparently it's normal
though I doubt the random green shits we all got were. I can't remember what food it was but every once in a while we'd all shit green. We all had bad gas too

The military is basically voluntary prison.

Looks like some kind of shredded beef pot roast.

Army mess halls only have about $1.50 for breakfast, $2,00 for lunch, and $2.50 for dinner per soldier to work with. each individual one on each base gets budgeted based on number of people that usually get.

one of the mess halls at my first base, did something great for a while. a new civilian manger put in display fridges like at a convenience store. then stocked them with canned drinks, cold lunch meat foot long sandwiches, and bags of chips. You could just walk in, scan the meal card; and then grab a drink, sandwich, and chips. which meant you could spend most of your hour and a half lunch break doing something else. that lasted about 3 months. when the base command saw how much his cost overruns were. they fired him and stopped the take away stuff. which meant you wanted it to go, you had to stand in line and get normal food in a polystyrene box. no drinks to go.

mess halls only still exist because the military still insist in housing enlisted soldiers that aren't married or have enough rank, in barracks. which most of them have no kitchens. if they do. it is a shared kitchen for an entire floor or entire building. which is just a pain in the fucking ass to use. so instead of getting Basic Allowance for Subsistence. soldiers in barracks get a meal card. forcing them to eat in mess halls or pay out of pocket. while married soldiers and soldiers not in barracks get a few extra hundred dollars tax free per month to buy food.

eating in mess halls really dominates your schedule too. since it takes up so much time. what would be a 5 minute breakfast in your own home. takes 45 minutes at a mess hall. drive to the mess hall because they don't have enough to make them all walking distance from barracks. stand in line to scan your meal card. stand in line to get your food. put stuff at a table. then get your drinks, silverware, napkins, cold/dry food items like fruit and cereal. sit and eat. take your stuff to the turn in point.

The Army DFAC when I was stationed in Alaska was amazing. Same with afghanistan

am I allowed an induction top in my dorm in the air force? this shit looks miserable

no Hotplates in the barracks ever you will burn them down.

oh and mess halls usually close at 7pm or even earlier. so you have to get dinner between 5 and 630pm. which can be a problem when your normal release for work for the day is 5pm and dickhead commanders or first sgts will keep you late. don't you dare mention that you need to go eat. they'll either make you go get something to go and come back and eat it in a minute while watching. give you an MRE. or tell you tough shit. though you might luck out and have decent ncos in your squad. who will buy pizza or something for the squad every once in the while.

some mess halls don't do all 3 meals. some won't be open on weekends. some on the weekends only do 2 meals and breakfast is still ass early in the morning for some reason.

i've never had even decent coffee from a mess hall. the 5 year old packet of freeze dried instant coffee in an MRE is better coffee than what I got in mess halls.

the soft serve ice cream machine is always broken.

the milk is always too warm.

"buttery whipped spread" instead of butter.

strawberry creamcheese in little cups instead of regular.

some jack ass put something other than batter in the waffle iron and ruined it.

the orange juice is sour/bitter.

>packing flour in those tiny ass cans
feels kinda wasteful

that's some slow-ass cooking, specially the fucknuts prepping the vegetables

cooks are never the sharpest knives in the drawer.

I only ever meet one that actually wanted to be a cook. it was some guy that had already been working in some god awful boomer chain restaurant like chilis. so the army said he could just do basic and go straight to work.

I'm all for businesses providing work for the intellectually disabled but Sodexo straight up hires completely non functional head cases for staff.
The Chow Hall at my base had a guy who was both blind and had downs syndrome. They also had this low functioning autist that would constantly make threatening gestures and swear loudly about where you set condiments.
So glad I'm out now.

>1:10 "Hurr wtf is the claw grip"

Teach you're comrades to hold a knife proper marinebrahs

trips confirms you were that low functioning autist

>be getting chow in basic
>server had some mental disability and had the trex arms
>have to move through chow line quick while DI is screaming at us to hurry up
>retard cant even pick up a spoon to serve us the veggies and food properly
>get maybe 2 little nugget sized pieces of chicken and 3 or so pieces of the tiny frozen vegetables for lunch before being screamed at to move on
Godamnit

Formerly Hunts

I'm high functioning.

look at all the manlets and 4:45.

>the 5 year old packet of freeze dried instant coffee in an MRE

Nice!

Sodexo is bullshit with their portioning too though. I'm a grown ass nigga busting my fucking ass 12 hours a day in 100°+ weather. I'm gonna need more than 3 fucking wings and a half scoop of collard greens to get me through the day.

hey, those corporate CEO's need their bonuses y'know, can't blame them for being a little stingy
now go fight and die for their right to scam tax money and provide sub-par nourishment for all government employees

I was an RLC chef 2009-2014

All I heard was good things in the field when we were allowed to cook. Nobody likes sodexo.

Speaking to LE Cap/Maj's they used to describe how Corp of Catering had alsorts of funds and made daily fresh bread and more pride in the 80s.

Pre Options for change Army sounded class. Everyone had funding out the arse.

>For government employees
>Who still pay taxes
>And also get paychecks garnished exorbitantly for small portions of garbage food
Civvies can have their bitchfits over "muh tax dollars" but trust me, the average GI isn't the one doing the damage.

cook it ahead of time, like days ahead of time, and not store it properly.

>cook it ahead of time, like days ahead of time
The mould would be the least of the issues.

that's the point m8
sodexo-tier corps are fucking everyone and laughing all the way to the bank while the rest of the people keeps fighting for their scraps and pointing fingers at each other

Nigga it's called food safety
Plus imagine one of these guys was wearing a band aid and it fell off

judging by the look of that "meat" pie type of thing that'd be the least of my worries

You're right that meat pie unironically looks likes shit tho

>mfw days where the choices were grilled cheese sandwiches or "quiche" which was eggs with whatever the leftovers were from the previous days
those days were just real fuck you days along with the frozen circular lunch pizzas. Never got enough protein unless I swallowed down a bunch of cottage cheese or peanut butter "spread"

food safety is washing your hands before food prep and observing potential contaminants.

a rubber glove is just another potentially dirty risk

rubber gloves in a kitchen for any purpose except keeping plasters on is retarded.

i thought army mess hall food was better than that shit. how are they gonna keep morale high?

Me too. Wanna make out?

Most armies in 'relative' peace time suffer from poor morale, boredom, desertion, suicides, apathy.

Funding drops, means are stretched and people stop giving a fuck.

At least that's how it is here in bongland. Battalion life is shit when you're stuck in some shitty 10 man room in some random county with only 2-3 pubs selling pints of fosters for £4 being the only thing to do on a Tuesday night.

No I don't enjoy being touched.

>canned flour

what is this stuff?

im guessing its some sort of blueberry dessert

has to be shelf stable for years and when transported to shitholes like afghanistan.

that's pretty expensive for shitty beer

Prevents moisture from getting in.

Believe it or not, grains can go rancid. So consumption of flour or spices decades past expiration can cause 'ergo', a disease you could get from something as simple as spoiled caraway seeds as long as they're exposed to air enough years.

>Doritos with the food
>They bother to make pastry dough for the goop but won't even bake their own bread

most of the people i knew in the army wouldn't appreciate a good fresh bread and butter.

Usually your only outlet unless you're in the block wanking