On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:24:24 -0800, Mark Thorson >
wrote:

>brooklyn1 wrote:
>>
>> Actually that's true... the US Navy conducts the finest culinary
>> schools on the planet, I attended and graduated from all of them...
>> and only the Crème de la Crème are chosen to cook at sea.
>
>My dad was in the Navy during WW2, and he said they
>always had great food and plenty of it.

Until you're a month out of port and there's no fresh fruit, veggies,
milk, eggs, etc. However, when in home port, TPTB used to allow the
officers' wives/girlfriends to have dinner in the wardroom from time
to time when the husband/boyfriend had the duty. I recall the food as
having been very good and served with linens and decent tableware.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd...former Navy wife

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"If the soup had been as warm as the wine,
if the wine had been as old as the turkey,
and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid,
it would have been a swell dinner." Duncan Hines