One time when we had steaks a cook used what he thought was cooking oil. Nope. Cans all look the same ya know. A person has to read them on the ship. Well he didn't. Several hundred got a good gut cleansing from the detergent. We kept a hot plate {bottom half of a popcorn popper sold in the ships store}in our shop and had access to the walk in coolers anytime :>}
My old man was on a mine sweeper in WWII. His job, among many, was to get the food supplies. He spoke fluent Norwegian, so whenever they would get into a port he would glass the area for Norwegian flags and take the launch to them all. He said there were always lots of them because they didn’t return to Norway after the Nazi’s took over.
He said the best he had ever eaten was those days in the Navy!