"cshenk" > wrote in message
...
> Cheri wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>>
>> "cshenk" > wrote in message speaking of Sheldon
>>
>> > I don't know if you are drunk or starting to lose it with age. I
>> > hope the former.
>>
>>
>> I imagine a large amount of both.
>>
>> Cheri
>
> Dunno. He's shifting though quite a lot and that can happen with
> dimensia. He has no family it seems to help him out. He may just be in
> a bad mood though.
>
> Carol

I really don't know, some days he seems much better than others and can
actually be quite helpful, and then...he just goes off the rails.

Cheri

On 9/7/2015 1:15 PM, Cheri wrote:
>
> "la voz del norte" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Cheri wrote:
>>> I admit that I don't read a lot of his posts because some of them are
>>> like being hit in the face with a huge wall of text.
>>>
>>> Cheri
>>
>> He certainly is the lone proponent of that style.
>>
>> Great imagery.
>>
>> I'm having a Phil Spector memory.
>
> LOL on the PS thing, true.
>
> Cheri
>
;-)

gtr wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On 2015-09-07 18:08:10 +0000, cshenk said:
>
> > > Yeah. My husband was on a ship. I know how it works.
>
> Me too!
>
> > What kind of ship Julie? Just curious on it and what job he did.
> > He might have been a passenger and nothing wrong with that, but
> > even as a passenger he might have observed somting interesting.
>
> As children we were on trans-Atlantic liners, SS America, Independece
> and Constitution. The food was regal to say the least. I remember
> well the the strolling violin trio in the dining room, they'd do
> pizzicato things to make the kids laugh. We ate like lords.

Quit messing with Julie.

--

wrote:
> English navy subs sure threw the best
> damn parties in town


I'm sure you spent some quality time in the torpedo tube...

On 9/7/2015 4:02 PM, wrote:

>>
>> Asolutely true, the smaller ships had the best chow.

That's just your opinion. I don't think the Staten Island Ferry food
was all that great.

On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 22:47:49 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:

>Je_us wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 21:25:42 -0400, Brooklyn1
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > On 9/6/2015 3:43 PM, Je?us wrote:
>> >>> On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 13:51:29 -0400, Brooklyn1
>> >>> > wrote:
>> > > >
>> >>>> Truth is the ingredients the navy receives are far better
>> quality than >>>> any used by civilians,
>> > > >
>> >>> LOL, you're losing your marbles.
>> > > >
>> > The 4F douchebag draft dodger never wore the uniform.
>>
>> LOL, that makes so much sense...
>>
>> So, you still stand by this claim of yours?
>> "Truth is the ingredients the navy receives are far better quality
>> than any used by civilians"
>>
>> On the face of it, that is a ridiculous claim, and nobody needs any
>> military service anywhere to know that.
>
>Nope. There was a time when that happened, but it was all services and
>it was WWII. Not after that.

Sorry, I still have trouble believing that. Did high end restaurants
close down during that time?

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?

"Cheri" > wrote in message
...
>
> "cshenk" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Cheri wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>
>>>
>>> "cshenk" > wrote in message speaking of Sheldon
>>>
>>> > I don't know if you are drunk or starting to lose it with age. I
>>> > hope the former.
>>>
>>>
>>> I imagine a large amount of both.
>>>
>>> Cheri
>>
>> Dunno. He's shifting though quite a lot and that can happen with
>> dimensia. He has no family it seems to help him out. He may just be in
>> a bad mood though.
>>
>> Carol
>
> I really don't know, some days he seems much better than others and can
> actually be quite helpful, and then...he just goes off the rails.

If she is talking about Sheldon, he most certainly does have family! Not my
business, but I just thought I would scotch that one.

--
http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/shop/

On 9/7/2015 2:39 PM, Je�us wrote:
> Please remind me what 'MRE' is again?


Meals...ready...to...eat...

Not as tasty as fwesh wabbit, imo...

On 9/7/2015 2:43 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>
>
> "Cheri" > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>> "cshenk" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> Cheri wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> "cshenk" > wrote in message speaking of Sheldon
>>>>
>>>> > I don't know if you are drunk or starting to lose it with age. I
>>>> > hope the former.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I imagine a large amount of both.
>>>>
>>>> Cheri
>>>
>>> Dunno. He's shifting though quite a lot and that can happen with
>>> dimensia. He has no family it seems to help him out. He may just be in
>>> a bad mood though.
>>>
>>> Carol
>>
>> I really don't know, some days he seems much better than others and can
>> actually be quite helpful, and then...he just goes off the rails.
>
> If she is talking about Sheldon, he most certainly does have family!
> Not my business, but I just thought I would scotch that one.
>

Just a few days back he was talking about feeding the grandsons (?) when
they came out to do chores.

Je_us wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 22:47:49 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
>
> > Je_us wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> >
> >> On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 21:25:42 -0400, Brooklyn1
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > On 9/6/2015 3:43 PM, Je?us wrote:
> >> >>> On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 13:51:29 -0400, Brooklyn1
> >> >>> > wrote:
> >> > > >
> >> >>>> Truth is the ingredients the navy receives are far better
> >> quality than >>>> any used by civilians,
> >> > > >
> >> >>> LOL, you're losing your marbles.
> >> > > >
> >> > The 4F douchebag draft dodger never wore the uniform.
> >>
> >> LOL, that makes so much sense...
> >>
> >> So, you still stand by this claim of yours?
> >> "Truth is the ingredients the navy receives are far better quality
> >> than any used by civilians"
> >>
> >> On the face of it, that is a ridiculous claim, and nobody needs any
> >> military service anywhere to know that.
> >
> > Nope. There was a time when that happened, but it was all services
> > and it was WWII. Not after that.
>
> Sorry, I still have trouble believing that. Did high end restaurants
> close down during that time?

Many of the better foods were reserved for the military effort in WWII
althouth there was plenty left for the rest. Butter was rationed for
example.

http://www.history.com/news/hungry-h...in-wartime-ame
rica

It was far tougher in England.

Carol

--

On Mon, 7 Sep 2015 15:46:22 -0600, Shalako > wrote:

>On 9/7/2015 2:43 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Cheri" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>>
>>> "cshenk" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> Cheri wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "cshenk" > wrote in message speaking of Sheldon
>>>>>
>>>>> > I don't know if you are drunk or starting to lose it with age. I
>>>>> > hope the former.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I imagine a large amount of both.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheri
>>>>
>>>> Dunno. He's shifting though quite a lot and that can happen with
>>>> dimensia. He has no family it seems to help him out. He may just be in
>>>> a bad mood though.
>>>>
>>>> Carol
>>>
>>> I really don't know, some days he seems much better than others and can
>>> actually be quite helpful, and then...he just goes off the rails.
>>
>> If she is talking about Sheldon, he most certainly does have family!
>> Not my business, but I just thought I would scotch that one.
>>
>
>Just a few days back he was talking about feeding the grandsons (?) when
>they came out to do chores.

The grands spent most of the summer at a sleep away camp nearby, when
camp was over they spent ten days here before school started, fishing,
bike riding, golfing, shopping and whatever... they helped with
outside chores for like half a day, mostly weeding around trees,
shrubs, and such, was helpful as they are closer to the ground and
have younger legs, so they also picked string beans. It was a very
nice camp, at those prices it should be nice. The campers weren't
permited cell phones or computers but there was one visiting day and
we went and the food served was fabulous, I won't even bother to
describe it all but much was from the finest NYC eateries and
bakeries, I pigged out on lox, herrings, smoked whitefish salad, real
bagels, an array of top quality cheeses, and some of the finast
pastries, cakes, and cheesecake on the planet.. plus an asortment of
salads, all sorts of fresh fruit, condiments, real fermented pickles,
all kinds of wonderful olives, and foods I know I'm forgetting... and
all you wanted smorgesbord style, they ran out of nothing. I checked
their kitchen, top of the line. Of course this spread was for the
guests but the campers ate very well too, healthier naturally, check
the menu on their web site. Oy vey, if I ate like that every day I'd
have a bigger butt than sf. LOL
The campers cabins were even air conditioned... a gorgeous camp on 500
acres of prime Catskill woodland.
http://www.timberlakecamp.com/

Jeßus wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> 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?

Meals Ready to Eat. It's a pouch that requires no refridgeration and
you add water to parts which then heat up the meal.

--

On 2015-09-07 19:58:23 +0000, cshenk said:

> gtr wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> On 2015-09-07 18:08:10 +0000, cshenk said:
>>
>>>> Yeah. My husband was on a ship. I know how it works.
>>
>> Me too!
>>
>>> What kind of ship Julie? Just curious on it and what job he did.
>>> He might have been a passenger and nothing wrong with that, but
>>> even as a passenger he might have observed somting interesting.
>>
>> As children we were on trans-Atlantic liners, SS America, Independece
>> and Constitution. The food was regal to say the least. I remember
>> well the the strolling violin trio in the dining room, they'd do
>> pizzicato things to make the kids laugh. We ate like lords.
>
> Quit messing with Julie.

I don't mess with Julie. Period.

It's all quite true. The 50's were very very good to me and my fambly.
I thought topic shift was mandatory...

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.

On 2015-09-07 20:43:09 +0000, Ophelia said:

>> I really don't know, some days he seems much better than others and can
>> actually be quite helpful, and then...he just goes off the rails.
>
> If she is talking about Sheldon, he most certainly does have family!
> Not my business, but I just thought I would scotch that one.

I'm not quite sure how you can get away with that last phrase...

On 2015-09-07 23:08:22 +0000, Bruce said:

>>> It was far tougher in England.
>>
>> It definitely was - I have told the story before of my grandmother
>> wrestling her huge dog to the ground to take the leg of lamb from his
>> mouth so we could eat it. He got it next door at the US Army Officers
>> Mess in a requisitioned house. Guess they didn't understand roast
>> lamb. She soaked it in vinegar and water and declared it good to eat,
>> and we did.
>
> Wow, you guys had meat?

When they didn't feed it to the dogs.

On 9/7/2015 4:56 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Sep 2015 15:46:22 -0600, Shalako > wrote:
>
>> On 9/7/2015 2:43 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> "Cheri" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> "cshenk" > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>> Cheri wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "cshenk" > wrote in message speaking of Sheldon
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don't know if you are drunk or starting to lose it with age. I
>>>>>>> hope the former.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I imagine a large amount of both.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheri
>>>>>
>>>>> Dunno. He's shifting though quite a lot and that can happen with
>>>>> dimensia. He has no family it seems to help him out. He may just be in
>>>>> a bad mood though.
>>>>>
>>>>> Carol
>>>>
>>>> I really don't know, some days he seems much better than others and can
>>>> actually be quite helpful, and then...he just goes off the rails.
>>>
>>> If she is talking about Sheldon, he most certainly does have family!
>>> Not my business, but I just thought I would scotch that one.
>>>
>>
>> Just a few days back he was talking about feeding the grandsons (?) when
>> they came out to do chores.
>
> The grands spent most of the summer at a sleep away camp nearby, when
> camp was over they spent ten days here before school started, fishing,
> bike riding, golfing, shopping and whatever... they helped with
> outside chores for like half a day, mostly weeding around trees,
> shrubs, and such, was helpful as they are closer to the ground and
> have younger legs, so they also picked string beans. It was a very
> nice camp, at those prices it should be nice. The campers weren't
> permited cell phones or computers but there was one visiting day and
> we went and the food served was fabulous, I won't even bother to
> describe it all but much was from the finest NYC eateries and
> bakeries, I pigged out on lox, herrings, smoked whitefish salad, real
> bagels, an array of top quality cheeses, and some of the finast
> pastries, cakes, and cheesecake on the planet.. plus an asortment of
> salads, all sorts of fresh fruit, condiments, real fermented pickles,
> all kinds of wonderful olives, and foods I know I'm forgetting... and
> all you wanted smorgesbord style, they ran out of nothing. I checked
> their kitchen, top of the line. Of course this spread was for the
> guests but the campers ate very well too, healthier naturally, check
> the menu on their web site. Oy vey, if I ate like that every day I'd
> have a bigger butt than sf. LOL
> The campers cabins were even air conditioned... a gorgeous camp on 500
> acres of prime Catskill woodland.
> http://www.timberlakecamp.com/
>


I remember your post on this, glad the lads had a fine summer.

AC in camp cabins?

Wow, the world has changed.

On 9/7/2015 4:58 PM, cshenk wrote:
> Jeßus wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> 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?
>
> Meals Ready to Eat. It's a pouch that requires no refridgeration and
> you add water to parts which then heat up the meal.
>

Not highly recommended but - the pork chow mein ain't bad...

On 9/7/2015 5:05 PM, gtr wrote:
> On 2015-09-07 20:43:09 +0000, Ophelia said:
>
>>> I really don't know, some days he seems much better than others and can
>>> actually be quite helpful, and then...he just goes off the rails.
>>
>> If she is talking about Sheldon, he most certainly does have family!
>> Not my business, but I just thought I would scotch that one.
>
> I'm not quite sure how you can get away with that last phrase...
>
+1

On Mon, 07 Sep 2015 17:55:00 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:

>Je_us wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 22:47:49 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
>>
>> > Je_us wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>> >
>> >> On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 21:25:42 -0400, Brooklyn1
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > > On 9/6/2015 3:43 PM, Je?us wrote:
>> >> >>> On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 13:51:29 -0400, Brooklyn1
>> >> >>> > wrote:
>> >> > > >
>> >> >>>> Truth is the ingredients the navy receives are far better
>> >> quality than >>>> any used by civilians,
>> >> > > >
>> >> >>> LOL, you're losing your marbles.
>> >> > > >
>> >> > The 4F douchebag draft dodger never wore the uniform.
>> >>
>> >> LOL, that makes so much sense...
>> >>
>> >> So, you still stand by this claim of yours?
>> >> "Truth is the ingredients the navy receives are far better quality
>> >> than any used by civilians"
>> >>
>> >> On the face of it, that is a ridiculous claim, and nobody needs any
>> >> military service anywhere to know that.
>> >
>> > Nope. There was a time when that happened, but it was all services
>> > and it was WWII. Not after that.
>>
>> Sorry, I still have trouble believing that. Did high end restaurants
>> close down during that time?
>
>Many of the better foods were reserved for the military effort in WWII
>althouth there was plenty left for the rest.

That's what I figured

> Butter was rationed for
>example.
>
>http://www.history.com/news/hungry-h...in-wartime-ame
>rica
>
>It was far tougher in England.

Certainly was.

On Mon, 07 Sep 2015 17:58:57 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:

>Jeßus wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> 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?
>
>Meals Ready to Eat. It's a pouch that requires no refridgeration and
>you add water to parts which then heat up the meal.

Ah-ha, thanks for that.

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.

On 9/7/2015 5:50 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> You mean

Leave.

Now.

On Mon, 07 Sep 2015 19:20:07 -0300, wrote:

>On Mon, 7 Sep 2015 16:32:15 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>
>>On 9/7/2015 4:02 PM, wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> Asolutely true, the smaller ships had the best chow.
>>
>>That's just your opinion. I don't think the Staten Island Ferry food
>>was all that great.
>
>Hey Ed ! Twasn't me who said that!

Actually the passengers ate roach coach shit... the crew ate the
finast chow NYC had to offer, on par with the NYFD. I happen to know
a couple of ship mates who became NYC tug boat owners, they call me
all the time for menu/recipe recommendations. Dave Silver was a snipe
I served with who owns four huge NYC harbor tugs, a great friend who
is always asking for recommedations for feeding his more than fifty
employees. His brother lives in the Catskills so when he visits his
brother he visits me too, like 3-4 times a year.

Sqwertz wrote:
> Of course it just happened to be all the Jewish foods you like.


Ut oh, the Jew-hater is back on display.

On 2015-09-07 23:53:21 +0000, said:

>>> Wow, you guys had meat?
>>
>> When they didn't feed it to the dogs.
>
> When the US Army Officers didn't feed it to the dogs. I can still see
> the dogs face when he received the bone, without the meat

I probably have told this story he I was cooking two big fat steaks
on a small hibachi grill on the front porch. Likely the first time
ever around age 21. I went into the house to get something and when I
came out, there were two dogs, a lab and another the same size. The
lab had the steak in his jaw. I gave chase; at first he was really
hauling, but when he saw how fast I was moving began just loping 15
feet out of my range. It then occured to me: What if I get him to drop
the steak, am I going to cook it up real good? I gave up.

"gtr" > wrote in message news:2015090716051657051-xxx@yyyzzz...
> On 2015-09-07 20:43:09 +0000, Ophelia said:
>
>>> I really don't know, some days he seems much better than others and can
>>> actually be quite helpful, and then...he just goes off the rails.
>>
>> If she is talking about Sheldon, he most certainly does have family! Not
>> my business, but I just thought I would scotch that one.
>
> I'm not quite sure how you can get away with that last phrase...

lol I did think about it when I wrote that but I couldn't think of a better
way to say it))



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On Monday, September 7, 2015 at 6:59:01 PM UTC-4, cshenk wrote:
> Jeßus wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> > I suppose huge vats of slop would be possible for one person to make
> > in a day. Please remind me what 'MRE' is again?
>
> Meals Ready to Eat. It's a pouch that requires no refridgeration and
> you add water to parts which then heat up the meal.

I thought it was Meals Refused by Everyone or
Meals Refusing to Exit

Cindy Hamilton

On 2015-09-08 07:49:50 +0000, Ophelia said:

> "gtr" > wrote in message news:2015090716051657051-xxx@yyyzzz...
>> On 2015-09-07 20:43:09 +0000, Ophelia said:
>>
>>>> I really don't know, some days he seems much better than others and can
>>>> actually be quite helpful, and then...he just goes off the rails.
>>>
>>> If she is talking about Sheldon, he most certainly does have family!
>>> Not my business, but I just thought I would scotch that one.
>>
>> I'm not quite sure how you can get away with that last phrase...
>
> lol I did think about it when I wrote that but I couldn't think of a
> better way to say it))

Perhaps: "I thought I would put the kibosh on that one."

On 2015-09-08 10:33:08 +0000, Cindy Hamilton said:

> On Monday, September 7, 2015 at 6:59:01 PM UTC-4, cshenk wrote:
>> Jeßus wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>> I suppose huge vats of slop would be possible for one person to make
>>> in a day. Please remind me what 'MRE' is again?
>>
>> Meals Ready to Eat. It's a pouch that requires no refridgeration and
>> you add water to parts which then heat up the meal.
>
> I thought it was Meals Refused by Everyone or
> Meals Refusing to Exit

I've never had one but have repeatedly heard that they are actually
enjoyed. Perhaps this is to set up a comparison to the reviled
K-Rations.

"gtr" > wrote in message news:2015090807232061578-xxx@yyyzzz...
> On 2015-09-08 07:49:50 +0000, Ophelia said:
>
>> "gtr" > wrote in message
>> news:2015090716051657051-xxx@yyyzzz...
>>> On 2015-09-07 20:43:09 +0000, Ophelia said:
>>>
>>>>> I really don't know, some days he seems much better than others and
>>>>> can
>>>>> actually be quite helpful, and then...he just goes off the rails.
>>>>
>>>> If she is talking about Sheldon, he most certainly does have family!
>>>> Not my business, but I just thought I would scotch that one.
>>>
>>> I'm not quite sure how you can get away with that last phrase...
>>
>> lol I did think about it when I wrote that but I couldn't think of a
>> better way to say it))
>
> Perhaps: "I thought I would put the kibosh on that one."
>

sure, now you go and offend the kiboshians!

On 08/09/2015 8:25 AM, taxed and spent wrote:
> "gtr" > wrote in message news:2015090807232061578-xxx@yyyzzz...
>> On 2015-09-08 07:49:50 +0000, Ophelia said:
>>
>>> "gtr" > wrote in message
>>> news:2015090716051657051-xxx@yyyzzz...
>>>> On 2015-09-07 20:43:09 +0000, Ophelia said:
>>>>
>>>>>> I really don't know, some days he seems much better than others and
>>>>>> can
>>>>>> actually be quite helpful, and then...he just goes off the rails.
>>>>>
>>>>> If she is talking about Sheldon, he most certainly does have family!
>>>>> Not my business, but I just thought I would scotch that one.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not quite sure how you can get away with that last phrase...
>>>
>>> lol I did think about it when I wrote that but I couldn't think of a
>>> better way to say it))
>>
>> Perhaps: "I thought I would put the kibosh on that one."
>>
>
> sure, now you go and offend the kiboshians!
>
>
I'm sure Kim Kiboshian appreciates *any* publicity! :-)
Graham

In article >, gravesend10
@verizon.net says...
>
> On Mon, 7 Sep 2015 15:46:22 -0600, Shalako > wrote:
>
> >On 9/7/2015 2:43 PM, Ophelia wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> "Cheri" > wrote in message
> >> ...
> >>>
> >>> "cshenk" > wrote in message
> >>> ...
> >>>> Cheri wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> "cshenk" > wrote in message speaking of Sheldon
> >>>>>
> >>>>> > I don't know if you are drunk or starting to lose it with age. I
> >>>>> > hope the former.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I imagine a large amount of both.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cheri
> >>>>
> >>>> Dunno. He's shifting though quite a lot and that can happen with
> >>>> dimensia. He has no family it seems to help him out. He may just be in
> >>>> a bad mood though.
> >>>>
> >>>> Carol
> >>>
> >>> I really don't know, some days he seems much better than others and can
> >>> actually be quite helpful, and then...he just goes off the rails.
> >>
> >> If she is talking about Sheldon, he most certainly does have family!
> >> Not my business, but I just thought I would scotch that one.
> >>
> >
> >Just a few days back he was talking about feeding the grandsons (?) when
> >they came out to do chores.
>
> The grands spent most of the summer at a sleep away camp nearby, when
> camp was over they spent ten days here before school started, fishing,
> bike riding, golfing, shopping and whatever... they helped with
> outside chores for like half a day, mostly weeding around trees,
> shrubs, and such, was helpful as they are closer to the ground and
> have younger legs, so they also picked string beans. It was a very
> nice camp, at those prices it should be nice. The campers weren't
> permited cell phones or computers but there was one visiting day and
> we went and the food served was fabulous, I won't even bother to
> describe it all but much was from the finest NYC eateries and
> bakeries, I pigged out on lox, herrings, smoked whitefish salad, real
> bagels, an array of top quality cheeses, and some of the finast
> pastries, cakes, and cheesecake on the planet.. plus an asortment of
> salads, all sorts of fresh fruit, condiments, real fermented pickles,
> all kinds of wonderful olives, and foods I know I'm forgetting... and
> all you wanted smorgesbord style, they ran out of nothing. I checked
> their kitchen, top of the line. Of course this spread was for the
> guests but the campers ate very well too, healthier naturally, check
> the menu on their web site. Oy vey, if I ate like that every day I'd
> have a bigger butt than sf. LOL
> The campers cabins were even air conditioned... a gorgeous camp on 500
> acres of prime Catskill woodland.
> http://www.timberlakecamp.com/


2016 cost
$12,950 (All-Inclusive) for 8 weeks.

Holy cow!

Janet UK

> On Mon, 07 Sep 2015 17:55:00 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
>
> >Je_us wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> >
> >> On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 22:47:49 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
> >>
> >> > Je_us wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> >> >
> >> >> On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 21:25:42 -0400, Brooklyn1
> >> >> > wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > > On 9/6/2015 3:43 PM, Je?us wrote:
> >> >> >>> On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 13:51:29 -0400, Brooklyn1
> >> >> >>> > wrote:
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> >>>> Truth is the ingredients the navy receives are far better
> >> >> quality than >>>> any used by civilians,
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> >>> LOL, you're losing your marbles.
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> > The 4F douchebag draft dodger never wore the uniform.
> >> >>
> >> >> LOL, that makes so much sense...
> >> >>
> >> >> So, you still stand by this claim of yours?
> >> >> "Truth is the ingredients the navy receives are far better quality
> >> >> than any used by civilians"
> >> >>
> >> >> On the face of it, that is a ridiculous claim, and nobody needs any
> >> >> military service anywhere to know that.
> >> >
> >> > Nope. There was a time when that happened, but it was all services
> >> > and it was WWII. Not after that.
> >>
> >> Sorry, I still have trouble believing that. Did high end restaurants
> >> close down during that time?

In UK, where civilian domestic food rationing was pretty drastic,
restaurants and hotel restaurants didn't close down but from 1942 the UK
govt limited what they could serve to no more than three courses, only
one of which could contain meat, and the total cost was capped at five
shillings.

Janet UK

"gtr" > wrote in message news:2015090807232061578-xxx@yyyzzz...
> On 2015-09-08 07:49:50 +0000, Ophelia said:
>
>> "gtr" > wrote in message
>> news:2015090716051657051-xxx@yyyzzz...
>>> On 2015-09-07 20:43:09 +0000, Ophelia said:
>>>
>>>>> I really don't know, some days he seems much better than others and
>>>>> can
>>>>> actually be quite helpful, and then...he just goes off the rails.
>>>>
>>>> If she is talking about Sheldon, he most certainly does have family!
>>>> Not my business, but I just thought I would scotch that one.
>>>
>>> I'm not quite sure how you can get away with that last phrase...
>>
>> lol I did think about it when I wrote that but I couldn't think of a
>> better way to say it))
>
> Perhaps: "I thought I would put the kibosh on that one."

Oh no doubt someone would be offended) At least you got my meaning

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On Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 10:24:19 AM UTC-4, gtr wrote:
> On 2015-09-08 10:33:08 +0000, Cindy Hamilton said:
>
> > On Monday, September 7, 2015 at 6:59:01 PM UTC-4, cshenk wrote:
> >> Jeßus wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> >>> I suppose huge vats of slop would be possible for one person to make
> >>> in a day. Please remind me what 'MRE' is again?
> >>
> >> Meals Ready to Eat. It's a pouch that requires no refridgeration and
> >> you add water to parts which then heat up the meal.
> >
> > I thought it was Meals Refused by Everyone or
> > Meals Refusing to Exit
>
> I've never had one but have repeatedly heard that they are actually
> enjoyed. Perhaps this is to set up a comparison to the reviled
> K-Rations.

Actually, my husband used to buy MREs at the Army surplus store and
keep a couple on hand in his car. He had a gig where he interfaced
with the PA National Guard, and they fed him MREs. He said there were
good ones (beef stew) and not-so-good ones. Sarge invoked RHIP and
kept the beef stew for himself; his men had to make do with the
other varieties.

Cindy Hamilton

On 9/9/2015 2:53 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 10:24:19 AM UTC-4, gtr wrote:
>> On 2015-09-08 10:33:08 +0000, Cindy Hamilton said:
>>
>>> On Monday, September 7, 2015 at 6:59:01 PM UTC-4, cshenk wrote:
>>>> Jeßus wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>>>> I suppose huge vats of slop would be possible for one person to make
>>>>> in a day. Please remind me what 'MRE' is again?
>>>>
>>>> Meals Ready to Eat. It's a pouch that requires no refridgeration and
>>>> you add water to parts which then heat up the meal.
>>>
>>> I thought it was Meals Refused by Everyone or
>>> Meals Refusing to Exit
>>
>> I've never had one but have repeatedly heard that they are actually
>> enjoyed. Perhaps this is to set up a comparison to the reviled
>> K-Rations.
>
> Actually, my husband used to buy MREs at the Army surplus store and
> keep a couple on hand in his car. He had a gig where he interfaced
> with the PA National Guard, and they fed him MREs. He said there were
> good ones (beef stew) and not-so-good ones. Sarge invoked RHIP and
> kept the beef stew for himself; his men had to make do with the
> other varieties.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>
Mmmm hmmm...

Ayup...

On 9/9/2015 2:21 AM, Janet wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 07 Sep 2015 17:55:00 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
>>
>>> Je_us wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 06 Sep 20could serve to no more than three courses, only
> one of which could contain meat, and the total cost was capped at five
> shillings.
>
> Janet UK
>
>
>
Mmmm hmmm...

Ayup...

On 9/9/2015 12:25 AM, taxed and spent wrote:
> "gtr" > wrote in message news:2015090807232061578-xxx@yyyzzz...
>> On 2015-09-08 07:49:50 +0000, Ophelia said:
>>
>>> "gtr" > wrote in message
>>> news:2015090716051657051-xxx@yyyzzz...
>>>> On 2015-09-07 20:43:09 +0000, Ophelia said:
>>>>
>>>>>> I really don't know, some days he seems much better than others and
>>>>>> can
>>>>>> actually be quite helpful, and then...he just goes off the rails.
>>>>>
>>>>> If she is talking about Sheldon, he most certainly does have family!
>>>>> Not my business, but I just thought I would scotch that one.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not quite sure how you can get away with that last phrase...
>>>
>>> lol I did think about it when I wrote that but I couldn't think of a
>>> better way to say it))
>>
>> Perhaps: "I thought I would put the kibosh on that one."
>>
>
> sure, now you go and offend the kiboshians!
>
>
Mmmm hmmm...

Ayup...