COMSUBBBS
Posts: 3860
Location: Kansas City Missouri | Subject: 14,000 Meals on a US Aircraft Carrier
Hard to fathom the size of everything. Of my three boats, fondest food memory was having the Jefferson's cooks breaking the cherry of a QM2 by introducing him to "Corned Beef and Cabbage" Love for her fragrance and mouthfeel has never dwindled. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMowka71qfM
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1709
| Subject: RE: 14,000 Meals on a US Aircraft Carrier
Despite what everybody says my boat had the worst chow I had in the Navy. I signed up in Terminal Island, and used their mess hall one weekend a month for my first year in the navy - it was fantastic. On Sunday we had to wear dress blues, but we were already in them as weekend warriors. Bootcamp, and sub school were at Hunters Point, and that tiny mess put out the best food I ever had in the navy. My active duty was only on the Pickerel, and except for one fabulous cook (Crutcher) the food was mediocre. Our salvation was during our Westpac excursion the Chief Sonarmen would cook Italian food for every Thursday's evening meal. Also everybody was allowed to participate in the 10 cent raffle of a beer served in a frosted mug before the meal.
I mentioned this before, but one of our cooks doused everything he cooked with vinegar. He was from the south, but I've never tasted anything like that in my visits to the south. Also Crutcher was the only one that ever baked and took pride in that along with putting out soup downs. |
Old Salt
Posts: 311
Location: Vista, Ca. | Subject: RE: 14,000 Meals on a US Aircraft Carrier
On Gudgeon and Barb, we might have been lucky but all of our cooks were top of the line. Our night bakers did a really great job also. We even had a couple of shipmates that took the cooks recipes home to try their hand at the meal. I think one of the things that made our cooks pretty good was that if the meal was so so or flat out bad, the cooks were told. And no one held back - it was "pretty s**tty meal tonight stew". Things like that. But if the meal was good or better they were also told that it was good. Most of the time they got high fives more often than low fivesand I think that made them try to cook better. And our night bakers could not make enough sticky buns to keep the crew happy. The stewards made sure the first dozen went to the wardroom to the skipper would not be pissed. They were good. |
14,000 Meals on a US Aircraft Carrier
