Food served to US service men & women.

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• 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Meanwhile in the Finnish army we conscripts got pancakes, fish, meatballs, burgers, all kinds of decent food. It was on par if not slightly better than regular old school food.

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  • catboy_slim@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, about that school food comparison

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    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Not the same in the us as developed countries

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    • skeezix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The school food comparison

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• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  themarshallproject.org/…/what-s-in-a-prison-meal

  Actual photos of prison food, just for comparison.

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Please note, these meals are recreations, and recreations only, based on the portions described by the food companies and corrections officials accused of skimping.

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  • SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And this is what they proudly claim to be serving, the actual portions are smaller and the food is worse. This is the equivalent of the photos mcdonalds takes for their menu.

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• UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is that an actual shoe sole in the second picture?

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  • iocase@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Beiged mystery meat

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• Doom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is the exact same stuff they fed us when I was in Iraq 20 year ago. They gave the contract to the lowest bidder who bought the cheapest food possible then pocketed the “leftover” cash. This isn’t new. The difference between then and new is our families could send us care packages and we didn’t have cell phones to post about the mystery meat. I don’t want anyone to eat like this but I also don’t know why everyone is surprised by wartime food. Food SUCKS when you deploy, it’s why they give troops the big send off steak and lobster dinner. Best way to avoid giving giving our troops trash food is to NOT DEPLOY THEM.

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  • Tomorrow_Farewell@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    All food should suck for the soldiers of your empire.

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  • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Back in the day they had ice cream ships… SHIPs… For ice cream…

    How the mighty have fallen

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    • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They were nicknamed the “ice cream ships” because they had refrigerated holds and freezers, but in reality they moved all kinds of food and perishable supplies, a lot more than just ice cream.

      The USN was no doubt very good at logistics in the 40’s, but they didn’t have so much excess capacity they could dedicate entire ships to ice cream.

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  • raze2012@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I also don’t know why everyone is surprised by wartime food.

    xkcd.com/1053/

    That’s why awareness needs to be constant. It’s why coke spends a billion a year on advertising despite “everyone knows what coca cola is”.

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• herculeskan@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s really disgusting to think that politicians eat pretty well and the army who dies for them are eating this stuff while they are killing minors in the middle east

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  • Tomorrow_Farewell@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nah. These bootlickers deserve much worse.

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    • 7101334@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Not worse than the people issuing their orders, which was kind of the point I think.

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  • orioler25@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Maybe that’s why you don’t sign up for their murder squad.

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s even funnier when you consider that this has been the case for millenia

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  • mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I support execusion for the leaders, life sentences for the worse soldiers and few decades for the rest of murdered

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  • AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I mean hasn’t that been the case since forever?

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• Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Too good for those terrorists.

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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In the royal Australian Navy, we got fed ridiculous amounts of potatoes au gratin, sans the gratin. It was like big trays of thin -ish sliced potatoes, drowned in white sauce, and walked past a tepid oven. The potato was still mostly raw. Thankfully nobody seemed to like the broccoli but me (because it was unsalted), so I’d get a mountain of broccoli and jazz it up with salt, pepper, and butter pads.

  I think we got some kind of meat but for the life of me I can’t remember any specific meat dish except an inedible beef stroganoff with a thin gravy made from what tasted like all the burnt bits scraped off all the other pans, blended in some dishwater. That thing would ruin your day.

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  • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They didn’t like unsalted broccoli and couldn’t work out how to sprinkle salt on it?

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The price of MURICAN Freedom^TM^

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  • skeezix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Fuck yea!

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• bobbosr2004@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  MRE’s are better than that slop

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  • islandcoda42@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Let’s get this out onto a tray………nice!!

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    • bobbosr2004@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Nice hiss!

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• blackberry28@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Looks like prison food lol

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  • mursejoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The US military industrial complex is a prison. People sign up for it for social service benefits that first world countries get given to them as a human right.

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    • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I was gonna say, if your other options are poverty / prison, this isn’t actually a bad deal practically speaking. Not gonna get into the ethics of military service other than to say blaming individuals for trying to escape poverty isn’t the answer. When I teach about chronic institutionalization in a psychiatric context, the military is one of the susceptible demographics alongside prison and long term hospitalization.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If that don’t wanna make you die for your country, nothing will.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  hesgeth and the top brass, and his department had luxury dinners, lobsters, king krab, wine,etc.

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• DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Wait untill you see what they eat in the field its even more luxorius!

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• A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What is that thing that looks like an oversized date or an exotic turd?

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I thought it was a single dolma

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• Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Probably fake or misleading. There aren’t enough calories pictured in these images.

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  • warbond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think maybe a little misleading, but probably not fake. For the boxed meal, that shit happened all the time. It’s just like going through the drive through.

    For meals served on ships, most of the time you ask for what you want, they don’t just give you what they have. If you have a piece of bread on your tray, that’s because you only grabbed a piece of bread. Most of the time.

    Sometimes there’s just not a lot of options because you haven’t been replenished in a while and the cooks have already done what they can to keep people from bitching at them constantly. Fresh fruits and vegetables are always the first to spoil, so eventually everything is canned, frozen, rehydrated, or reconstituted. Or baked from scratch, poorly.

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  • mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve seen these pictures attributed to USS Abraham Lincoln on some other sites.

    That ship recently suffered a major supply crisis while it was on station in the middle east. The reason is that Iran was able to deny the use of all of the nearby bases with their drones and medium range missiles. Thus the US Navy resorted to resupplying Abraham Lincoln from Diego Garcia, which is thousands of miles away.

    So it’s plausible to me that these are real images, and they represent a very serious problem for the navy: both in terms of total calories and in the loss of morale from low quality.

    In any case, Abraham Lincoln has since been relieved, and will make a liberty port call in Thailand after 245 days at sea.

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    • bedwyr@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      But they were without supply for half a year, sending a ship from the US takes a couple of weeks. This is just bad leadership.

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  • cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Probably fake or misleading

    fwiw the first and last images in this post both were first published in this USA today article back in April, attributed to anonymous crew members of the USS Tripoli and USS Abraham Lincoln.

    There aren’t enough calories pictured in these images

    The Simpsons character Rainier Wolfcastle on stage with a microphone, on TV, with the caption “THAT’S THE JOKE”

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  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My biggest complaint about the pics is the trays are different. The military probably has a standard tray that they buy, and likely wouldn’t use a compostable lidded container as shown in pic one.

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    • stupe@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I can’t speak for the modern military, but when I was in almost 30 years ago there were not standard trays. The chow halls were different from base to base.

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    • ZapBeebz_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I mean, 2 of the 3 pictures that show trays show the same trays. The rest are all takeout containers, which are the kind of consumable that makes sense to be just whatever Supply can requisition. And I’m more likely to believe different tray styles per class, I.e. submarines might have a more efficient (and therefore costlier) design for more cramped quarters that a carrier doesn’t necessarily need.

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  • ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Idk… I feel like that kind of incompetence is almost unimaginable with an unprecedentedly well-funded organization known the world over for its logistical capabilities… But the people saying it’s fake happen to be the biggest liary lying liars there ever were, so im a bit divided.

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  • DillDough@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Caloric intake is one of the complaints of people on the ship…the tortilla one is for sure real, that’s from when the stories first started coming out.

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  • im_fine_sandy@nord.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Almost certainly misleading, but the underlying truth is that shits fucked

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    • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Accepting such posts does mean becoming even more vulnerable to misinformation and propaganda hence I don’t.

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  • bedwyr@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They have been getting shafted because Iran destroyed the resupply hubs (months ago,) and the US admin and their hack armed services leaders neglected to send resupply ships from elsewhere.

    Because we have all the wrong people in charge, even before this president.

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• bedwyr@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  By law they should have to use quotation marks in describing their product. “Swedish Meatballs.” *May include diseased donkey dicks

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• TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Not pictured, food served to members of the US Air Force. Airmen actually get paid a bonus stipend for food when visiting other non-air force bases for a reason.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Apart from being rather sparse helpings, are you sure there are actually cooks on the galley? Because any halfway decent cook can still produce decent meals even from substandard produce.

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  • gagcar@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No. There are culinary specialists that think instead of going down to storerooms to get another thing of tomato sauce for spaghetti, they can just cut what is left with ketchup as it needs replenishing. They are buddy fuckers and some of the laziest, most corrupt(?)(eg, you had to know someone, or be a woman, to get good food that wasn’t on the serving line) people I met in the service.

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• kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  bone apple tea!!

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    US soldiers describing a better meal

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    • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That was insanely good. Bravo.

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• SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Meanwhile, TACO is gnawing a ruined, expensive tomahawk steak, well done with ketchup.

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• percent@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ever had a meal with a group of US military guys? They’re done in like 3 minutes. It’s wild

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I keep better company

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• SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They don’t deserve even mud for food. But, there’s a solution: see that fatty right besides you, soldier?

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• sudoer777@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What’s in the middle image? A piss and a shit?

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    looks like large blood cat from a large domesticated animal.

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• lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  These are mostly on ship. They’re at that stage relying on whatever is left in the large fridges, having to ration their stock. Which can only mean they’re not being resupplied, especially at such a prolonged operation that the shit leadership bragged they’ll finish Iran in a week.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What actually is that first image? It’s gray, what food is gray?

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  • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Looks like some carrots, a hamburg steak (ground beef patty) and a piece of roast beef, like what Arby’s and similar fast food places serves, where the beef just comes in a plastic bag with basting juices and you basically just steam/wet bake it. Not a whole lot of opportunity for maillard browning to happen in a wet cooking environment like that, and when you cook beef hard for a long period of time (a good way to make sure it’s safe to eat), it ends up grey in color.

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  • Tingle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The finest quality of gruel for their troops, thanks for their service LOL

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’d rather eat a gas station burrito.

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• notsosure@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  At least it is served attractively.

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• kadotux@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What’s that silver slab thing in the second picture? :D And that blob that looks like a giant kidneybean in the 4th pic?

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• TIEPilot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I got better food in county jail…

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• Nurgus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Socialism!!!

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