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(VANITY) Christmas dinner at the CPA Palace in Baghdad
My waste of space on the internet ^ | 25 December 2003 | Me

Posted on 12/25/2003 10:27:57 AM PST by nerdwithamachinegun

I took a few snaps at dinner this evening. This is nothing in depth or special.

I can't say enough about how hard the Pakistani KBR employees work to keep our dining facility clean and well organized. They do their best to prepare the food they have as nicely as possible. The food just sucks sometimes but it seems avoidable when they don't have decent stuff to work with at times. It certainly beats going hungry or eating MREs all the time. Some folks here don't treat them very nicely. It seems to be directly proportional to how self-important they are. I'll leave it at that until another vanity post.

Whoever the pastry chef is, he's not getting enough money. The cinnamon sweet rolls and other pastries are great considering the stuff they have to make them out of. If this guy could ever get some decent confectioner's sugar I'd gain back the 25 lbs I've lost here! The pies were pre-made but tasty anyway.

We had prime rib, baked ham, stuffing, corn on the cob, mashed taters, gravy, cranberry sauce and some of the usual side dishes like macaroni salad and potato salad. The sides are usually pretty good. There were a couple of other things on the main line but I don't recall what they were.

http://homepage.mac.com/bagdemagus/PhotoAlbum13.html


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Local News; Religion
KEYWORDS: aclu; dinner; nativity; pakistan; submachinegun
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl; nerdwithamachinegun
Thanks, RC!

Thanks for the pics and your service, nerdwithamachinegun!
21 posted on 12/26/2003 12:49:40 AM PST by windchime (Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))
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To: hoosiermama
LOL! Would be nice, but I move around a lot and they'd be in sad condition by the time they found me IF they found me. Heck, even the mailman can't find me; got stuff in about 3 places that I have just left! Looks like I'll get my Christmas stuff in Janauary...February...and March.

I've eaten about 6 in the past 2 days, and I'll just take a bunch with me.
22 posted on 12/26/2003 4:26:23 AM PST by Eagle Eye ( Saddam-Who's your Bagh-Daddy now?)
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To: nerdwithamachinegun; Ragtime Cowgirl
Thank you for sharing your Christmas with us, nerdwithamachinegun, and your pics. Got 'em bookmarked.

"Brian gets his ass kissed" has me LMAO!!

Take care over there, and thank you for serving our country this way.

Thanks so much for the ping, RC!
23 posted on 12/26/2003 5:50:15 AM PST by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: LindaSOG
Thanks for the ping!
24 posted on 12/26/2003 9:40:48 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: nerdwithamachinegun
Those are great pics. I looked at all of 'em with great interest.

Interesting that you can have a Nativity scene over there but here, the ACLU has managed to program many people to be "offended" by every little thing that isn't about THEM.

My time is drawing very near...about a week or so. Would have been sooner, but Christmas came at an appropriate time.

:-)

25 posted on 12/26/2003 11:54:44 AM PST by Allegra
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