On Mon, 7 Sep 2015 16:04:07 -0700, gtr > wrote:

>On 2015-09-07 20:39:24 +0000, Jeßus said:
>
>> On Sun, 6 Sep 2015 17:15:40 -0700, gtr > wrote:
>>
>>> On 2015-09-07 00:10:35 +0000, Jeßus said:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Seemingly (Above: "Nope, one cook fro each 24 hour duty stint...")
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I suppose ye olde prisons and orphanages managed to accomplish
>>> something within range from panoply of the many "thin gruels"
>>> available. And, of course, a store house of MRE could pull it off.
>>> Still, just scraping 300 MRE into huge vats seems like a tough call,
>>> three times a day...
>>
>> I suppose huge vats of slop would be possible for one person to make
>> in a day. Please remind me what 'MRE' is again?
>
>I believe it's Meals Ready to Eat.

Thanks.