Navy Food

[rumrunner]

Not sure which section this post is best suited for...

I don't know how Navy food is these days but I assume it is better than when I was on active duty,  and I have to say that even then it was pretty good chow so I hope today's sailors are eating good.  I hope they still have the surf and turf nights.  And the holiday meals were always top notch too - great Thanksgiving and Christmas meals.

But there were always exceptions.  Pork Adobo never seemed right to me.  And then there was the time our cooks on the Texas (CGN-39) decided to serve "Syrian Beef Stew" for lunch on the day we arrived at Ashdod, Israel, for a port visit.  The visiting Israeli officials were not pleased, if I read their faces correctly.  The crew wasn't happy either, because we simply didn't like Syrian Beef Stew. 

"Red Death" at breakfast bothered some (this was the Navy version of SOS - essentially Sloppy Joe with less spice), but I actually liked it. 

[braveliltoast3r]

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The Indian Currie they served down in Charleston glowed- swear to God.  It was the strangest thing I've ever seen.

[Rad Sponge]

Beef Yuckisoba.

Nuff said.

[93-383]

Beef Yuckisoba.

Nuff said.

I always liked the Yuckisoba... but then again I covered it and nearly everything with Texas Pete. The food on the ship when I first started 01 was.... not good by the time I left it was a lot better bolth in tast and health. As for the health I can verrify that but as for tast I'm not sure if it got better of my taste buds just couldn't tell anymore 

[rumrunner]

>>I loved the Pizza nights.<<

Yeah, the Navy pizza was pretty good.   As was the baking in general.   They baked some decent bread, sweet rolls, etc.  I actually couldn't wait until the store-bought bread ran out and they had to start baking it from scratch.   It made great toast.

[Preciousblue1965]

Well some of the good:

Anything that was pre-prepared and just needed to be heated up
Turkey a la king-really good actually
simple stuff-sliders, corn dogs, chicken nuggets, etc
mashed potatoes-staple of every meal, must be drowned in gravy for any flavor
Rice-same as above
chicken cordon blue and chicken kiev-both suprisingly good at least on my ship
Breakfast in general-hard to screw it up but on occasion you get the green scrambled eggs

Bad:
Pudding at NPS Charleston-came in a little bowl, you put the spoon in, lift spoon, bowl comes with spoon NO LIE
Beef Yak-as previously stated nuff said
Anything that requires finesse to cook right-they just dont' have the time to do it right
Reflective roast beef-roast beef that when looked at from a certain angle had a reflective surface like a CD or a trout
Baked potato wedges-never cooked all the way through and often tasted like dirt
garlic toast for spaghetti-often just buttered leftover hotdog buns.


Hope this doesn bring back to many bad memories to anyone.

[retired nuke]

>>I loved the Pizza nights.<<

Yeah, the Navy pizza was pretty good.   As was the baking in general.   They baked some decent bread, sweet rolls, etc.  I actually couldn't wait until the store-bought bread ran out and they had to start baking it from scratch.   It made great toast.

Thanks,
I was a baker on a sub, and enjoyed making the bread, rolls, and sticky buns. I also enjoyed making breakfast - eggs ANY way you wanted them, 3 kinds of meat, 2 kinds of potatoes, all you could eat! 

[rumrunner]

Thanks,
I was a baker on a sub, and enjoyed making the bread, rolls, and sticky buns. I also enjoyed making breakfast - eggs ANY way you wanted them, 3 kinds of meat, 2 kinds of potatoes, all you could eat! 

You are quite welcome.  Breakfast...yeah, I looked forward to getting one of those huge omelets with everything in it.  Delicious.

[Preciousblue1965]

Nothing beats special milk that had a shelf life of over a year at room temperature.  Or on the rare occasion breaking out MRE for hurricane detail at NPTU

[nowhereman]

not to fall in disfavor with the cooks, but they did the best with what they had, I always will remember after field day, they would have rainbow ham(you would see a rainbow sheen on the ham...freezer burn)  then for later over well done sliders,  but pizza on Saturdays nights made up for that......ah chicken cacciatore=dynamited chicken, but having fresh bread and peanut butter was  always good.....  I remember one time we stayed out so long, we went thru the soda, then went thru the  bug juice, then it was jello and sugar in the bug juice machine....

and all I remember was that after 30 days out, you would not want to order eggs(sorry those powered eggs were bad...) and the egg storage in the bilge did not help much....

[rlbinc]

After a stores clerk procured domestic milk in Karachi, Pakistan, the stainless steel dispenser had a sign on it that said:

"Name that mammal, win $50." 

I thought it was Yak, with a playful hint of Water Buffalo. Don't know what mammal it actually came from.

[Cycoticpenguin]

Nothing beats special milk that had a shelf life of over a year at room temperature.  Or on the rare occasion breaking out MRE for hurricane detail at NPTU

Things like this make me glad im lactose intolerant 

[mooredee13]

I can't believe nobody has mentioned the three words associated with the typical Friday meal: Tempura Fried Fish. Eeeewww!

I'll never forget the brand name of my favorite peanut butter when we were patrolling out of Holy Lock...Glove Kid. Never understood the name, but the peanut butter sure was good. Of course, when that ran out of the Glove Kid we had to break into the WWII surplus canned peanut butter. Trying to mix the oil back into the peanuts was always a joy.

Elephant Scabs were always good...I still eat them once in awhile.

Sliders were our standard post-field day meal. You couldn't beat 'em.

The Chiefs always did a good job with the steak and lobster (a.k.a. Great Lakes Crawfish...read that right off the box during a stores load) on halfway night. The officers (with the Mess Specialists supervising them very closely) did okay whenever they made pizza.

Green bug juice was great...for getting verdigris off the sea water piping (How can something so green make your dookie purple?!?!).

Ah, memories...

[elwood]

During stores load for 6 month deployment the boxes of beef were USDA stamped "Grade F not fit for prisoner consumption".      

[rumrunner]

During stores load for 6 month deployment the boxes of beef were USDA stamped "Grade F not fit for prisoner consumption".      

Throwing the bravo sierra flag.....http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/badmeat.asp

[93-383]

Throwing the bravo sierra flag.....http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/badmeat.asp

Sorry but I held cases similar to that in my own hands during delta working parties. Now they didn't say grade F or D or any of that, but they where stamped rejected by US Prison System. If I'm lying I'm die’ in.

In this I will add my thanks to the CS (MS) personnel that did their best to put out edible food with some of the worst ingredients for some of the most ungrateful people, including myself for several years

[Already Gone]

I threw a handful of Pork Adobo into the water at Fort Lauderdale just to watch the Lemon Sharks go crazy -- it scared them away and they never touched a bite.
Meat has to be bad if it repels sharks.

[rumrunner]

Well, I guess we are all just going to have to believe what we want to believe as far as the meat goes.  All I can say is that it is a stretch to think that, 1) the Bureau Of Prisons would stamp meat as being rejected, 2) assuming #1 were correct that the Navy would then buy the meat, and 3) that if #1 were true the Navy would not obliterate the alleged marking.   On all the working parties I was on for stores onload, I never saw any of this nonsense on the packaging.

I never had a meal in the Navy - or in the Marines prior to the Navy - where the meat was of such poor quality as to not be fit to consume.  I'll even include the C-rations I ate in the field while a Marine in that assessment.  I sure didn't like Syrian Beef Stew or Pork Adobo (or the c-ration ham and "muthas"), but it was the flavor combination and method of cooking that annoyed me, not the quality of the ingredients.

[drainbamage]

NNPTC pie is pretty darned good IMO

[Ken_Subnuc]

NNPTC pie is pretty darned good IMO

Yep yep, I am a fan of the lemon cake though .

How goes it Drainbamage? I see we both made it through bootcamp just fine . Are you a wire rate or a wrench user?

<--in EM A school atm here.

PM me for #. I'm in housing if you wanna hang out sometime.

Anyway, the food at bootcamp is still pretty good though as well. The focus is still all on nutritional value. (IE lots of turkey-everything).

~Ken

[Cycoticpenguin]

Ken, I want you to do me a favor.... eat as much as possible from the galley there eat there like 5 times a day if you can... eat until you are sick and cant eat anymore...

then when you get to the ship, you wont kick yourself for not abusing the good thing you had while it lasted haha. ship food isnt very tasty after about 3 days haha. Better then I'd expect, but still gross compared to charleston!!

Aye, on the bootcamp food. I was blown away by the quality.