Food in the Navy is generally mid to bad. I just asked my deployed friend what he thought of it and he was less than impressed. That being said, Submarine crews generally get better food because they literally have nothing else.
Until your deployment gets extended twice, you haven’t surfaced the boat for fresh air in 50 days, and the food runs so low that whatever you had for dinner last night is what’s mixed with the (fake, fresh ran out months ago) eggs. The only meat left, for every recipe requiring meat, is ham. The fresh milk ran out after a month, and only the ultra pasteurized plastic shit is left.
Nah. They dont give a fuck either way. I got tossed on a random work crew my first few weeks moving food around in a walk in deep freeze. We were fresh out of port. I found 4 year expired chicken tetziki just encased in pounds of freezer burn, just a true frosty the fucking snowman head of boxed shit.
I ran down the galley worker running the crew to let him now they had expired food and he just looked at me, shook his head and yelled “its still good! Put it back!”
Needless to say, I tried to eat out of tin cans as much as possible, and I wasent alone. Ritz and canned chicken was basically currency on ships because the food is shit. Any kind of snackbars. If you know sailors mail then endless boxes of snackbars, not homemade cookies. The cookies are kind, but will go to shit after being flown around the ocean for 3 months before they get there. Send them that pre-wrapped corporate shit.
They did do a good breakfast though if you were willing to wait in line for someone to cook eggs on a flat top. That was the only good food on the ship.
Ever. Even the rare times they cracked out lobster/steak (yes, we were literally going to war) they boiled both to fuck and back to fuck again.
Dont even ask about how they stacked missles in the galley, cause yeah, they stack missles in the galley because they dont give a fuck if we died while we ate. The people making those decisions ate in nice places with plates instead of trays and didnt have to eat next to missles.
Nah. I stocked up before deployments and stashed it all under the deck plates of my workspace for days when the food from the galley was particularly inedible. But the ship store did have such such items for purchase, and those items certainly sold!
I mean, given the current task force directive is “Murder innocent people to distract the world from our leader’s pedophilia”, I do express some disappointment in any active duty members that don’t refuse orders.
Refusing orders is a real fast way to prison or execution. I get your point, but the military is setup to make challenging orders as risky as possible.
The US government. If a member of the military disobeys a direct order they get court marshaled. The rules there are different than the typical US court system and way more harsh in a lot of cases.
The US government is not a person. It’s a lot of people who individually choose to follow the rules. One of those rules is: Congress decides wars. You might have missed the point behind my question.
If there is one thing anyone should have learned about 2025, it’s that in the United States, there are never any real consequences for breaking the rules. Each of us decides which ones are real and which to follow.
Food in the Navy is generally mid to bad. I just asked my deployed friend what he thought of it and he was less than impressed. That being said, Submarine crews generally get better food because they literally have nothing else.
Until your deployment gets extended twice, you haven’t surfaced the boat for fresh air in 50 days, and the food runs so low that whatever you had for dinner last night is what’s mixed with the (fake, fresh ran out months ago) eggs. The only meat left, for every recipe requiring meat, is ham. The fresh milk ran out after a month, and only the ultra pasteurized plastic shit is left.
Get that good irridiated milk glug on. Shelf stable for 50 years, tastes exactly like it.
That classic plastic cow taste, now with added decayed lettuce slime on the bag from being buried in the bottom of the reefer for 6 months!
They have good food when they leave harbour but on a long mission the good stuff will run out
Nah. They dont give a fuck either way. I got tossed on a random work crew my first few weeks moving food around in a walk in deep freeze. We were fresh out of port. I found 4 year expired chicken tetziki just encased in pounds of freezer burn, just a true frosty the fucking snowman head of boxed shit.
I ran down the galley worker running the crew to let him now they had expired food and he just looked at me, shook his head and yelled “its still good! Put it back!”
Needless to say, I tried to eat out of tin cans as much as possible, and I wasent alone. Ritz and canned chicken was basically currency on ships because the food is shit. Any kind of snackbars. If you know sailors mail then endless boxes of snackbars, not homemade cookies. The cookies are kind, but will go to shit after being flown around the ocean for 3 months before they get there. Send them that pre-wrapped corporate shit.
They did do a good breakfast though if you were willing to wait in line for someone to cook eggs on a flat top. That was the only good food on the ship. Ever. Even the rare times they cracked out lobster/steak (yes, we were literally going to war) they boiled both to fuck and back to fuck again.
Dont even ask about how they stacked missles in the galley, cause yeah, they stack missles in the galley because they dont give a fuck if we died while we ate. The people making those decisions ate in nice places with plates instead of trays and didnt have to eat next to missles.
ah good to see chicken on a raft continues to be a navy staple
So the movie “Under Siege” is a lie then? There are no action hero super chefs who can sautee with a machine gun and kill at the grill?
I bet they don’t even butter the lobster!
steak looks burnt and dry.
They all deserve unflavored oatmeal for every meal.
I would have loved if unflavored oatmeal were an option at every meal! I could have saved a fortune on cup noodles and instant mac&cheese!
They make you pay for your food? What a shit military.
Nah. I stocked up before deployments and stashed it all under the deck plates of my workspace for days when the food from the galley was particularly inedible. But the ship store did have such such items for purchase, and those items certainly sold!
You sound like a spiteful person. Remind me not to serve with you
I mean, given the current task force directive is “Murder innocent people to distract the world from our leader’s pedophilia”, I do express some disappointment in any active duty members that don’t refuse orders.
Refusing orders is a real fast way to prison or execution. I get your point, but the military is setup to make challenging orders as risky as possible.
They sure don’t put Eddie Slovik in our textbooks I’ll tell ya.
Prison or execution by who?
The US government. If a member of the military disobeys a direct order they get court marshaled. The rules there are different than the typical US court system and way more harsh in a lot of cases.
The US government is not a person. It’s a lot of people who individually choose to follow the rules. One of those rules is: Congress decides wars. You might have missed the point behind my question.
If there is one thing anyone should have learned about 2025, it’s that in the United States, there are never any real consequences for breaking the rules. Each of us decides which ones are real and which to follow.