Posted on 04/02/2009 4:14:14 PM PDT by SandRat
I saw something like this on one of the food channels. great stuff. The military guys/gals were cooking against chefs at major resorts and holding their own.
Good on them!
We had a cook that made the most delicious chili. One problem though, you had to keep the windows open in the HQ the next day.
That’s just sad he should at least be a warrant officer.
*CLANG* *CLANG* *CLANG* GAS-GAS-GAS! SET MOPP5! SET MOPP5
All The Way!
Where was this guy when I was a grunt in the 325?
Man, the chow sucked!
My youngest went to a big name culinary school and I couldn’t be prouder. He has loved cooking since he was 8. Now, he is working in Charleston, SC. He’s only been out of school three years, but he is working two jobs at a time to hone his skills and get exposure to what fine dining restaurants do.
Kudos for this chef taking his skills back to the Army. I’m sure he could have done better in the private sector. His “customers” must love having him around.
Yeah until your mess hall was closed and you had to go down to the next one then your mess hall was great right.
Actually, under regiment rules, I am SILL a grunt in the 325. Only way out, feet first.
Wonder if I can sign in to the chow hall.
Kudos to your youngest.
Usually, when we got back to main post, we signed in to the 325 mess hall under our own names.
Then, we signed in to the 327 mess hall, under assumed names - Casper Weinberger, ronalald Reagon, Donald Duck, whatever.
The 82nd is NOT good at feeding troops in the field.
Go for a month, on one meal a day, and a bunch of 18-yo kids get HUNGRY.
Bobby Flay has already done a “Throw Down” with an army sargent who cooked steaks. I think Bobby lost. I would love to see him on the food channel with Bobby.
WHAT? SOS was a childhood fave in the mess halls when I was a kid and Dad was stationed at Bragg. We still make it and I have chipped beef in the cupboard now.
What you didn’t eat your mre’s?
I would love to watch that.
Best mess hall meal I ever had - Ow, man, now I am going to tear up.
My Grandparents always hosted thanksgiving, until they couldn’t. So the took the entire family to the mess hall for t-day.
Man, I miss grandpa,
I’m impressed. He reminds me of Alton Brown.
Pardon, but they had not been invented yet.
We had C-RATS, marked “Best eaten before 1950”.
This was in the 1980’s.
Later, we had “LRRPS”. You don’t want to know - the 1950 c-rat was better.
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