Cooks in the sub fleet were OK, but I share your lack of enthusiasm for the “Grit”
Hell we had cornbread in the north, Chicken fried steak and all, folks down south get most animated about some odd staples,
I suspect that’s all there was....
It was held amongst us Permanent Shore Duty types that Navy cooks who were anything but outstanding and got put on board anything got out of sight of dry land had two options:
Become outstanding
Request Shore Duty (before you "accidentally" fell overboard...or, in the case of bubbleheads, didn't make it out of New London).