Posted on 02/10/2012 9:31:06 AM PST by Kaslin
Ping to #37 [waste not want not]
Purim is mentioned in the Bible
Easter 9:26-32
The verses leading up to 26 explain what the feast was commemorating...
Make that Esther 9:26-32
They tried this on the Army during WWII.
They wanted a cheap source of protein, so the Army bought huge amounts of very poor quality bologna, and it was nasty. It was mottled with chunks of lard, and served for breakfast fried.
Now at that time, the only food a large number of soldiers would eat was grits. So that was breakfast, bologna and grits.
One soldier reminisced that the bologna made he, and several of his peers, vomit daily. So they made it a point after breakfast to stand outside the mess hall and have a group regurgitation on its steps.
Eventually they, and hundreds like them, persuaded the Army to get a different source of protein, so instead they sent trainloads of poor quality, post spawning (read ‘rotting’) Salmon packed in ice.
This close to caused a mutiny. In those times, outside the Pacific northwest, almost nobody had ever eaten salmon, and it was regarded as a ‘junk fish’.
To this day, one of the most important dates on the calendar of enlisted personnel is that of the annual mess hall survey of food they like and food they dislike. It is treated with the seriousness of a public execution, and at it you will hear no laughing, joking, or any other levity.
This is because what they eat is seen by many as their one and only perquisite for their hard labor and sacrifice. They do not get paid a lot, live in small rooms, spend a lot of time cleaning and maintaining equipment. Oh, and yes, getting shot at.
So Michelle Obama is now going to tell them what they have to eat, “for their own good”. Not children, adults.
If the Army is smart, they will smile and nod, and tell her what a genius she is, and so fashionable, and even rig up a fake mess hall to serve the tofu and bean sprouts she demands.
But for every other soldier in the military, not to change a dang thing.
“Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.”
The military ‘travels on it’s stomach’, this was well know by the Roman’s and they sure as hell weren’t winning battles by eating grass.
So Mooch, close your pie, hamburger, ice cream, and french fries hole.
That fare mught be acceptable to desk weannies who live in cantonement and are on WCP already. But if I drove into my perimeter full of combat troops looking forward to their first hot A ration in week and pulled out a mermite can of that shiite, the ole Top here would have had a problem.
The Amercian military has been feeding troops for two hundred thirty six years. The Wookie comes in and thinks she knows better.
Come to think of it, that’s perfectly emblematic of the whole damned regime. We know better than you. About everything.
nuff said, correct?
Just look at what she’s done to her scrawny husband.
yup
Eleven years in Afghanistan and we can’t win because?????.....the Troops aren’t eating enough asparagus? What the ???? The only food problem in the military is that our admirals and generals are all weanies.
Kind of like Executive Wive’s or Colonel’s wives. Use their husband’s authority throw their weight around. I had my share of run-in’s with executive wives !
> How do we ALWAYS wind up with the POTUS’s wives trying to Regulate and Legislate, without being elected or having Authority to do so, getting in the faces of others to tell them what they have to do? (Hillarycare was the last one I recall).
This is what happens when ignorant amateurs try to run people.
FUMO !
Hey Moochelle! Load up on wheat bran and fruit, grab your Alice pack and take a ten mile run. Betcha don’t get past 5 before you gotta take a potty break.
Ladybird Johnson, beautified the country side by having all those annoying advertising signs removed, i guess she hated Burma Shave adds.
Ladybird also required all the car salvage yards to build fences and hide those ugly smashed up cars. Strange how democrats always assume the power of kings.
Ever wonder why no one ever removes those little crosses that seem to have popped up along highways, no fuss or complaints by anyone, curious huh?
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