I thought sailors always had a top galley chef and good food as a way to keep morale up on board

Food in the Navy is generally mid to bad. I just asked my deployed friend what he thought of it and he was less than impressed. That being said, Submarine crews generally get better food because they literally have nothing else.

They all deserve unflavored oatmeal for every meal.

I can verify personally that this is absolutely false. I remember fondly when the warrant officer onboard would volunteer to help in the galley, and on those days the burgers not only got seasoned, but cooked with the cheese on top! This happened infrequently, but was amazing when it happened.

I would have loved if unflavored oatmeal were an option at every meal! I could have saved a fortune on cup noodles and instant mac&cheese!

You sound like a spiteful person. Remind me not to serve with you

They have good food when they leave harbour but on a long mission the good stuff will run out

They make you pay for your food? What a shit military.

Nah. I stocked up before deployments and stashed it all under the deck plates of my workspace for days when the food from the galley was particularly inedible. But the ship store did have such such items for purchase, and those items certainly sold!

Surf and turf? Have fun on the frontline

I bet they don't even butter the lobster!

Until your deployment gets extended twice, you haven't surfaced the boat for fresh air in 50 days, and the food runs so low that whatever you had for dinner last night is what's mixed with the (fake, fresh ran out months ago) eggs. The only meat left, for every recipe requiring meat, is ham. The fresh milk ran out after a month, and only the ultra pasteurized plastic shit is left.

no, it's nice food because they might die soon

Oh no...

If that boy ain't about to die we're paying too much to feed him

Last meal adjacent.

Its the real deal when the bunting comes out.

Nah. They dont give a fuck either way. I got tossed on a random work crew my first few weeks moving food around in a walk in deep freeze. We were fresh out of port. I found 4 year expired chicken tetziki just encased in pounds of freezer burn, just a true frosty the fucking snowman head of boxed shit.

I ran down the galley worker running the crew to let him now they had expired food and he just looked at me, shook his head and yelled "its still good! Put it back!"

Needless to say, I tried to eat out of tin cans as much as possible, and I wasent alone. Ritz and canned chicken was basically currency on ships because the food is shit. Any kind of snackbars. If you know sailors mail then endless boxes of snackbars, not homemade cookies. The cookies are kind, but will go to shit after being flown around the ocean for 3 months before they get there. Send them that pre-wrapped corporate shit.

They did do a good breakfast though if you were willing to wait in line for someone to cook eggs on a flat top. That was the only good food on the ship.
Ever. Even the rare times they cracked out lobster/steak (yes, we were literally going to war) they boiled both to fuck and back to fuck again.

Dont even ask about how they stacked missles in the galley, cause yeah, they stack missles in the galley because they dont give a fuck if we died while we ate. The people making those decisions ate in nice places with plates instead of trays and didnt have to eat next to missles.

Get that good irridiated milk glug on. Shelf stable for 50 years, tastes exactly like it.

probably tastes like shit anyway.

steak looks burnt and dry.

to cook eggs on a flat top

ah good to see chicken on a raft continues to be a navy staple

Steak and Lobster with Rice? Why, that's unamerican! /s

I mean, given the current task force directive is “Murder innocent people to distract the world from our leader’s pedophilia”, I do express some disappointment in any active duty members that don’t refuse orders.

Refusing orders is a real fast way to prison or execution. I get your point, but the military is setup to make challenging orders as risky as possible.

Prison or execution by who?

If thats what they consider a good meal before you go off to die then I hate to think what their regular meals look or taste like... this looks like they've never seen a single piece of seasoning, spices, herbs, or even salt or pepper. Steak is probably rubber too

I mean to me it looks fucking awful. I wouldnt touch this unless I was absolutely starving.

For someone whos about to be sent to die and has been eating even worse shit for the last x number of months, its probably a nice change.

Sub food is good, except when the E2 cooking your meal serves up medium rare chicken.

They sure don't put Eddie Slovik in our textbooks I'll tell ya.

It's... Not awful. Better than it looks in this picture.

It's cooked in large quantities, and tastes like it. Seasonings are mild, but present. Lot of frozen premade stuff, lot of Sysco gallon cans of this or that. No such thing as a rare steak unless someone fucks up, per food safety guidelines.

It's prepared in ways that don't require a lot of attention to be paid to it, and no one is going to plate it like a chef, so presentation suffers. While it's no gourmet treat, it's generally palatable, and still better than some people get on the outside.

That said, surf and turf nights are common at a lot of overseas bases and ships during peacetime, not just as a last meal before war. Generally, stuff like an extra day off, time with family, or back in the day, extra phone calls would be what you'd see before heading out to anything long and dangerous. Even in some war zones, major operating bases and large ships would still have a taco Tuesday or a steak and lobster Friday to keep morale up. Not everyone has to deal with MRE's and field kitchens.

Thats fair. I wouldnt expect it to be plated like a chef at all, I cook a fuck ton and im fairly decent at cooking and I cant plate anything in a presentable way to save my life

Idk it just looked very bland to me, but it is good to know there is some additions to it.

Still wouldnt want to eat MREs/frozen foods all the time though but thats a completely different thing all together its not like they have a choice

They've were a weekly meal when I was deployed. I think it was Thursday nights.

The US government. If a member of the military disobeys a direct order they get court marshaled. The rules there are different than the typical US court system and way more harsh in a lot of cases.

The US government is not a person. It’s a lot of people who individually choose to follow the rules. One of those rules is: Congress decides wars. You might have missed the point behind my question.

If there is one thing anyone should have learned about 2025, it’s that in the United States, there are never any real consequences for breaking the rules. Each of us decides which ones are real and which to follow.

That classic plastic cow taste, now with added decayed lettuce slime on the bag from being buried in the bottom of the reefer for 6 months!

Back when I was deployed in Afghanistan, we called it steak and rocket night. Friday evenings is when they liked to shoot at us