• tunetardis@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I’m in a band that performs on occasion at CFBs (Canadian Forces Bases). We typically eat there and spend the night either in barracks or guest housing.

    I have noticed that when we play for officers, dinner is like steak and lobster. When we play for enlisted, it’s more like high school cafeteria. The one and only time I had to excuse myself towards the end of a concert and miss the closing number was after eating at the enlisted mess and getting explosive diarrhea.

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I know from my wife that food in the CAF varies wildly from base to base. Some places are pretty good, others are dogshit.

    • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
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      5 months ago

      The one and only time I had to excuse myself towards the end of a concert and miss the closing number was after eating at the enlisted mess and getting explosive diarrhea.

      I guess they’re training their soldiers for biological warfare.

      • tunetardis@lemmy.caEnglish
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        5 months ago

        I suppose it is a kind of survival training? One of my bandmates who’s served came up after. “So here’s the deal. You watch what everyone else is eating. If they’re meticulously avoiding the peach cobbler or whatever it is, you F’ing stay away from that S if you know what’s good for you!”

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Food in the US military

    Is this actually credible?

    No. The CIA isn’t military.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    100 percent. Just never mix Army and CIA. It spawns a level 5 entity that the black helicopter guys have to take care of.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    5 months ago

    The Vietnam vets I knew from the US army talked about the weirdly green gravy which was good, just green.

    And a WWII Navy vet stationed on a carrier said the food was fine, but it was all piled on top of each other.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Maybe it’s because I grew up poor with a single parent who couldn’t cook, but I thought that the Army food was great. When I got to AIT and could eat as much as I wanted, I realized that I had essentially been starving my entire life. I put on 19 pounds between starting basic and finishing AIT, when most people were losing dozens of pounds. I would eat 3000 calorie breakfasts, and then burn most of it off with an eight mile run.

      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        5 months ago

        the army food was great

        me too. I was with the military for 6 months (it’s obligatory in my country) and the food was delicious. Not just very nutritious and also healthy, but it really filled you, and made you feel good. Much better than what I got at home.

    • HKPiax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      That’s one jucy plate of bread, green beans, lettuce with cum, and diarrhea. Accompanied by a glass of piss.

      • BakerBagel@midwest.socialEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Thats how pretty much all food made in giant quantities for 1500+ people is gonna look. Looks like every cafeteria meal i have ever eaten.

  • Etterra@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Hey, my dad was a Marine and I take great offense at the suggestion that he ate crayons. He served in Vietnam; they smoked crayons, thank you very fucking much.