On Sun, 6 Sep 2015 17:05:13 -0700, gtr > wrote:

>On 2015-09-06 23:47:25 +0000, cshenk said:
>
>>> Nope, one cook for each 24 hour duty stint...
>
>[ mercy snip ]
>
>> BULLSHIT. Calling you on this. You assume no one is familair with
>> Navy ships here and will believe that balderdash you are spewing.
>> Hopefully they will not.
>>
>> Folks, by the time they had machines to peel the potatoes, they
>> *reduced* the galley staff to 20 for a crew of 300.
>
>I would think most home-cooks (the vast majority of us here), can
>figure out that a single cook for 300 people over a 24 hours period of
>time, even with a couple of mess cooks would be very very difficult.
>Like "walking to Mars" difficult.

Did he claim that? LOL. Many years ago I worked for about 12 months in
a small restaurant, and the idea of a single person managing to serve
300 meals (even with a couple of mess cooks, as you say,) is quite
ridiculous. Unless it was junk food perhaps.