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Memento posted:Tabasco is something you use to make unpalatable food palatable. There's nothing good about it, it's so you can take something gross and make it clear the reasonably low bar of "edible". The reason is politics.
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Guillermus posted:I'm glad you never paid a visit to Base España in Ad Diwaniyah where most of the spanish forces were. We had a peak of 900 out of 1400 with diarrhea. when I was at speicher working the CSH they used to do surf and turf on tuesdays with frozen lobster and steaks cooked by the KBR workers from nepal every tuesday night we'd have a few food poisoning cases
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    Nostalgia4Butts posted:when I was at speicher working the CSH they used to do surf and turf on tuesdays with frozen lobster and steaks cooked by the KBR workers from nepal I laugh now but it was drat annoying. I've been deployed three times (once on Iraq and twice on Afghanistan) and the best I've ever ate was in 2005 on Herat (Afg) when the italian part was the only with a food hall. Handmade pasta fresh every day, loving amazing. It was funny to see their cooks with a shoulder holster and apron too. Guillermus has a new favorite as of 19:40 on Nov 30, 2020 |
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Why is it not Karl Rohan
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Benagain posted:Why is it not Karl Rohan that would be silly
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Dredd is far more Karl Urban than Karl Urban
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this military dining hall chat is fascinating to me (not sarcasm)
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Empty Sandwich posted:this military dining hall chat is fascinating to me (not sarcasm) It's kinda a mess
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Empty Sandwich posted:this military dining hall chat is fascinating to me (not sarcasm) come post in GIP then, we have such sights to show you Guillermus posted:I laugh now but it was drat annoying. I've been deployed three times (once on Iraq and twice on Afghanistan) and the best I've ever ate was in 2005 on Herat (Afg) when the italian part was the only with a food hall. Handmade pasta fresh every day, loving amazing. It was funny to see their cooks with a shoulder holster and apron too. oh hell and gently caress yes you goddamn run to italian dfacs if you can find them one last thing about military dfacs: 
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:come post in GIP then, we have such sights to show you Cooking eggs is extremely serious business
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How is "eat out at the local restaurants" not the norm for deployment? It pumps money straight into the economy in a fairly good way, it's way better food, and the locals might even get to know you, and appreciate you and/or your money
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BonHair posted:How is "eat out at the local restaurants" not the norm for deployment? It pumps money straight into the economy in a fairly good way, it's way better food, and the locals might even get to know you, and appreciate you and/or your money Because (depending where you're at) most of the rest of the time the locals are "getting to know you" when they're getting shot at or blown up by you and your buddies, and some of the locals might understandably be unhappy about that, and might see a group of occupying soldiers out on the town as an opportunity for payback
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Because (depending where you're at) most of the rest of the time the locals are "getting to know you" when they're getting shot at or blown up by you and your buddies, and some of the locals might understandably be unhappy about that, and might see a group of occupying soldiers out on the town as an opportunity for payback especially when they are the ones preparing the food for said soldiers, they don't even have to directly confront them and what are you going to do, shoot at them?
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BonHair posted:How is "eat out at the local restaurants" not the norm for deployment? It pumps money straight into the economy in a fairly good way, it's way better food, and the locals might even get to know you, and appreciate you and/or your money because they like to bomb soldiers and shoot at them
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BaronVanAwesome posted:It's kinda a mess I'm angry about this pun but I have to acknowledge it.
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BonHair posted:How is "eat out at the local restaurants" not the norm for deployment? It pumps money straight into the economy in a fairly good way, it's way better food, and the locals might even get to know you, and appreciate you and/or your money Depending on where you’re at sometimes contractors will come on the base and run little restaurants, but generally you’re not really allowed to go do that sort of thing.
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LifeSunDeath posted:this is from 2010: Oh dang, Christ-like crusin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7cAYV_lVNI
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Someone add in Bones from the Star Trek reboot movies and call him Karl Orbital. Platystemon posted:The reason is politics. ok I'm actually interested to hear your opinion on why "politics" is the reason we had Tabasco sauce in ration packs for the Australian Army.
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Memento posted:ok I'm actually interested to hear your opinion on why "politics" is the reason we had Tabasco sauce in ration packs for the Australian Army. You can't imagine how deep the MacIlhenny company's claws go. Straight through to the other side, baby!
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RFC2324 posted:especially when they are the ones preparing the food for said soldiers, they don't even have to directly confront them Super-Troopers-Burger.m4a
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I mean I'm not doubting that there's grift and corruption involved with procurement for the US military and that almost certainly the reason we have Tabasco sauce in our rations is that we cargo cult whatever the US does without necessarily understanding why, but as far as finding a bottle of hot sauce that is small enough to fit in a ration pack that you can use to mask the flavour and texture of the mush they call food, you kinda can't go past it.
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teen witch posted:Oh dang, Christ-like crusin  this video/song is some next level poo poo.e,c:   
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Memento posted:ok I'm actually interested to hear your opinion on why "politics" is the reason we had Tabasco sauce in ration packs for the Australian Army. watch pentagon wars. military procurement is nothing but a series of grifts
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https://www.twincities.com/2017/08/20/minnesota-has-a-confederate-symbol-and-it-is-going-to-keep-it/ THE BODY posted:In 2000, when Virginia legislators requested the Southern Cross flag once again, Gov. Jesse Ventura said: “Why? We won. … We took it. That makes it our heritage.”
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Empty Sandwich posted:this military dining hall chat is fascinating to me (not sarcasm) In 2004 there was a suicide bombing in the military dining facility in Mosul. Shortly after that, we had to post guards at each DFAC. I had my turn, and I realized it was less about force protection and more about enforcing the sergeant major's chickenshit uniform rules for violations (no dirty uniforms, etc.) So here I am, on a (relatively) safe base, in a clean uniform with a never-fired-in-anger-rifle, and up pulls a convoy that had been through hell. Shattered windshields, bullet holes, several of the soldiers with blood on their uniforms from the buddies they had just medevaced out hours earlier. All they wanted was some hot chow. So I'm supposed to turn them around to go get clean uniforms? Also, French MREs are extremely the poo poo and never pass up the chance to eat one
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GD_American posted:Also, French MREs are extremely the poo poo and never pass up the chance to eat one Do they come with wine?
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CainFortea posted:Do they come with wine? Sort of. It was trout in a white wine sauce.
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they use a lot of cans instead of pouches, which are obviously gonna be way better one of my professors who worked in USAID said the French gave us some MREs to airdrop over bosnia back in the 90s, but we don't use parachutes with ours because they flutter to the ground. that doesn't work with cans
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CainFortea posted:Do they come with wine? There was MRE internationale chat somewhere and I swear some country got airplane bottles of courvoisier at one point. And a couple cigs, natch.
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Was not expecting Dracula to Rickroll me! Amazing!
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CainFortea posted:Do they come with wine? French high school cafeterias have wine for the teachers
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:There was MRE internationale chat somewhere and I swear some country got airplane bottles of courvoisier at one point. And a couple cigs, natch. There's an Italian MRE that comes with brandy but I don't think it is name-brand.
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There's also a Scottish one with half a fifth of whisky. And a really neat heater! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ry4QBQejFU
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Booze and cigarettes (or other tobacco) were standard for military rations until like, WW1.
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I mean, makes sense. Booze helps make crappy water more potable and tobacco was the cheapest and most plentiful quick stimulant soldiers could have until WWII.
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I seem to remember reading somewhere that medieval lords would load up their baggage with just an absurd amount of wine for the road and get shitfaced every night, which I used to think would make fighting in armor the next day really hard, but have since COVID times come to realize that it's just a matter of getting used to it long enough
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TotalLossBrain posted:There's also a Scottish one with half a fifth of whisky. And a really neat heater! So, a tenth of whiskey?
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