[familyop]

"Pogeybait" is unauthorized junk food and implies civilian decadence, lack of fitness, etc.

"Sailor," on the other hand, does have good natured but rather vulgar connotations between service branches in some settings. In initial training, for example, we were taught by our chaste, polite and pure drill sergeants, "If you want to have sex, join the Navy!"

But I don't think CWOJackson was going there with it. If you've always been a civilian, take it as a complement.

;-)

[CWOJackson]

Crap...don't tell him what mail buoys are.

And I'm over six feet tall so it was the Coast Guard (real sailors) not the Navy and their floating cities.

[philman_36]

"Pogeybait" is unauthorized junk food and implies civilian decadence, lack of fitness, etc.
WRONG! The expression you're looking for on junk food is gedunk, not pogeybait. That is what junk food is called.
But I don't think CWOJackson was going there with it. If you've always been a civilian, take it as a complement.
Oh, I have a pretty good idea where he was trying to go with it.
I haven't always been a civilian. Having been in the Navy I know exactly what gedunk is. I've a pretty damned good idea what pogeybait is too, though I've never heard it before.

[philman_36]

Gedunk Stand
On US Navy battleships, the "Gedunk Stand" was a common slang term for the shop where the sailors could buy snacks, sodas, or whatever they needed while at sea