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To: MulberryDraw

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.


72 posted on 06/14/2015 7:23:14 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (God made man, Berthold Schwartz and Col Colt made them equal.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

The milk may have been powdered. I never drank it or the chow hall coffee. The guys used to refer to the milk as coming from the “iron cow”. AF coffee was generally pretty bad.

I never made it into Happy Valley either. I didn’t have a car. There were some pretty old cars on the base. They were referred to as “goose-mobiles”. I did get up to Northwest River though. It was primarily a fishing village north east of the base.


74 posted on 06/14/2015 7:45:21 AM PDT by MulberryDraw (May the arrogant be put to shame... Psalm119:78)
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