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Zoobeef

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6,004 posts

157 months

Tuesday 26th July 2016
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/soldiers-set-...

Shame it didn't land in the galley. Rather eat a plate of vomit from there.

gruffalo

7,509 posts

225 months

Tuesday 26th July 2016
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A bit of high jinx.

Army cooks can/could ruin any food stuff you care to mention.

majordad

3,600 posts

196 months

Tuesday 26th July 2016
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We had a joke that the only real killers were the Medics and Cooks.

rohrl

8,712 posts

144 months

Tuesday 26th July 2016
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majordad said:
We had a joke that the only real killers were the Medics and Cooks.
A cook in my father's regiment once ran out of cooking oil so fried the chips in hydraulic fluid, which was fortunately discovered before he served them up.

Zoobeef

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6,004 posts

157 months

Tuesday 26th July 2016
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Just spent a month in Gibraltar being served by military chefs. Best food I've head at a workplace and never seen so many people with empty plates.

Bovvy has civvy chefs and I don't think they have ever been taught.

ChemicalChaos

10,360 posts

159 months

Tuesday 26th July 2016
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As mentioned in the Tiger Attack thread, there are certain things where you just have to ask "how else did you expect it to go?"

gruffalo

7,509 posts

225 months

Tuesday 26th July 2016
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Zoobeef said:
Just spent a month in Gibraltar being served by military chefs. Best food I've head at a workplace and never seen so many people with empty plates.

Bovvy has civvy chefs and I don't think they have ever been taught.
Would that have been RAF cooks they were always very good especially the field kitchen guys, they could do wonders with compo.

The army cooks that fed us at times could turn food into poo without mastication or digestion needing to take place. One time we got fresh rations after 8 weeks of compo and the army cooks got their hands on a lovely piece of beef and boiled it to destruction despite there being ovens in their field kitchen.

Brigand

2,544 posts

168 months

Wednesday 27th July 2016
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gruffalo said:
Zoobeef said:
Just spent a month in Gibraltar being served by military chefs. Best food I've head at a workplace and never seen so many people with empty plates.

Bovvy has civvy chefs and I don't think they have ever been taught.
Would that have been RAF cooks they were always very good especially the field kitchen guys, they could do wonders with compo.

The army cooks that fed us at times could turn food into poo without mastication or digestion needing to take place. One time we got fresh rations after 8 weeks of compo and the army cooks got their hands on a lovely piece of beef and boiled it to destruction despite there being ovens in their field kitchen.
Agreed - when going on exercise and seeing that it was MCU doing the food, everyone's bellies grumbled in delight. Something I could never understand though, in every RAF mess the food had a little sign next to it, so you could tell what it was (cornish pasty not cheese & onion pasty for example), but army mess's never had the signs, so you were forever asking "What's that chef?"

majordad

3,600 posts

196 months

Wednesday 27th July 2016
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I also caught an Army Cook boiling his dirty washing in the M59 Field Cooker after breakfast one morning. I was a young and naieve 2Lt so was suitably shocked. IMHO the cooks were the best of all soldiers, and also the worst. Sometimes the same soldier.