BoboBonobo wrote:
> Goomba wrote:
>> George Shirley wrote:
>>
>>> At least once a week we had SOS (use your imagination), aka chipped
>>> dried beef on toast, for breakfast in the Navy. That was about up to
>>> 48 years ago, they probably don't serve it anymore. The other oddity
>>> was fried bologna, baked beans, and hard boiled eggs for breakfast.
>>> Only ran into that on one ship I was on. Luckily young men will eat
>>> about anything so it went over pretty good.
>>
>> It took their mind off the abstinence, I imagine?
>>
> That, and the incessant masturbation.
>
> --Bryan
You've obviously never been aboard an old destroyer. Fifty men sleeping
in bunks stacked four high, no privacy and if you're caught wanking you
get Captain's Mast. Lots easier just to wait for shore leave.