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Aussie troops are picky eaters

 
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alphakennyone



Joined: 01 Aug 2005
Location: city heights

PostPosted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:28 pm    Post subject: Aussie troops are picky eaters Reply with quote

Makes me think of Koreans who travel with boxes and boxes of Shin Ramyeon and expats who can't handle gochujang

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090603/od_nm/us_afghanistan_food

I wonder if Dutch food could really be much worse than vegemite or ketchup on meat pies.
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bundangbabo



Joined: 01 Jun 2008

PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 5:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ask any army chef - squaddies are always complaining about the food - most of the morons are used to beans on toast back in the slums whence they came and they join the army and have top rate food cooked for them professionally and all they can do is WHINGE! Every army is the same - probably the cloggies are whinging about the food also though there is nothing they can do about it. Laughing

Though US army chefs are pretty high calibre - MREs are disgusting - food in the field isn't doesn't taste nice - I know there are a few ex army chefs knocking around on here who can weigh in with their opinion...
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alphakennyone



Joined: 01 Aug 2005
Location: city heights

PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I actually tried a couple of MREs (just out of curiosity..the military surplus store had em and they weren't all that cheap).

I thought they weren't bad.

Then again, I never minded school cafeteria food either.

Bottom line...women in my family can't cook!

My friend is a navy chef. What he was cooking up on the ship didn't sound amazing or anything, but it didn't sound bad either. Then again, they use outside contractors for those bases in Baghdad and the food apparently is amazing - and extremely expensive and at the taxpayer's expense, of course.
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Sleepy in Seoul



Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: Going in ever decreasing circles until I eventually disappear up my own fundament - in NZ

PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My great uncle was a cook in the New Zealand army. His recipe for pea soup was: 18 gallons of water and one pea. If it's too strong, take out the pea.
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manlyboy



Joined: 01 Aug 2004
Location: Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

An Australian can eat anything on the face of the earth provided he has two slices of bread and a bottle of tomato sauce.
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