"l, not -l" > wrote:

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>On 14-Dec-2010, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
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>> All spuds were peeled by machine except for dehys which were most.
>> Potato salad at sea was rare to never... in port the grubbermint
>> contracted delicatessen type viands with local civilian commissarys.
>> Any images of sailors paring spuds is very ancient history or pure
>> myth.
>
>The image of military personnel peeling potatoes is probably from WW2
>cartoons, and Sad Sack and Beetle Bailey comics. When I was in basic
>training, Nov. 1967 - Jan. 1968, peeling potatoes on KP duty meant loading
>them into the machines, draining the dirty water and removing them at the
>end of the cycle.

A year later at Parris Island we were peeling them with paring knives.
That was the last time I got mess duty.

Jim