[COB1]

"The only bad thing I will ever say about Marines is that the food they used to serve to Marines was not palatable."

Palatable??
Heck, most of it was not edible unless you were starving, which we usually were.
If I had had a choice I'd have rather gone through the mess at the Salvation Army soup kitchen!
The main dish was usually SOS that could be thrown like a baseball and never drip a drop.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"The main dish was usually SOS"

You can imagine what SOS looks like slopping around in the serving tray
while your ship is rolling and bobbing around in the ocean.
After about 1 week at sea we had powdered eggs and powdered milk.
Destroyers were never built for long term storage of fresh food.
My berthing quarters was the deck under the mess hall
(about the size of 2 average size living rooms.)