I was stationed in Goose Bay or 15 months in 69,70. We had plenty of food and plenty of heat. Cooks in the chow hall used to make eggs including omelets to order. They would crack the eggs with one hand. Sometimes I’d go for breakfast around midnight and again in the morning. I gained about 25 lbs while I was there.
I was at the Alert Barracks. Maybe the eggs were just old but they did have a strange taste. I figured they were powdered as I never saw anything but Scrambled eggs there.
I got my comeuppance there once. In the states I had been eating Jalapeno peppers out of the can. HOT! I was used to it.
One of the women cooks in the chow hall had just gotten a personal order of little red cherry peppers so I took one. She warned me they were hot! “I’m used to it!” I said.
I just took a nip off it and spent the next 15 minutes running cold water over my lips to kill the heat. That broke me of bragging real quick! it was many years before I would take a hot pepper again. I’ve never had such a hot, HOT! pepper in my life.