On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 10:08:19 -0600, Janet B >
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>On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 02:43:43 -0500, Alan Holbrook >
>wrote:
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>>Can't comment on ship's complement of cooks, never was in the galley on
>>board. But I will say that food served on board wasn't half bad. Nothing
>>you'd order purposely in a restaurant, but otherwide not half bad. With
>>the exception, of course, of the green powdered eggs...
>
>Funny . . . my husband's ship always had fresh eggs, but they had
>freeze-dried steaks. He said the steaks were about the size of a
>playing card before being re-hydrated. He was on the ship that
>replenished the stores of other ships.
>Janet US

I don't remember freeze dried steak, perhaps your husband is younger
than me, but we had canned freeze dried chicken parts, not very
good... I'd change the menu to swiss steak, the galley had two
portholes, freeze dried chicken became fish food.