On Monday, August 3, 2015 at 2:01:12 PM UTC-5, notbob wrote:
> On 2015-08-03, cshenk > wrote:
>
> > It changed. We did get decent stuff, but it wasn't the super
> > expensive sorts later on.
>
> I attended a cooking school for 6 mos. It was taught by a Navy cook
> retired after a jillion tours. He was actually a very good cook,
> until it came to meat. We'd get these awesome roasts. Prime rib,
> etc. He'd cook every one of them to death! No kidding. Those
> gorgeous choice cut 8-10 lb roasts would not come out of our
> commercial convection ovens until they were roasted geezer-shoe-brown
> from edge to edge. Our instructor never even heard of "rare" or
> "medium".
>
> Perhaps the Navy would get chipped beef. The USAF always got
> hamburger.
>
In later years, servicepersons in war zones have gotten better food, which
is a good thing, and I don't mind in the least paying more taxes so that
troops can have better food, but instead of using military personnel to
prepare/serve, they contract out to companies that gouge the taxpayers, and
it is nothing more than "military industrial complex" crony capitalism.
>
> nb

--Bryan