Encampment Food

[bosshawk]

Phil: some were better than others: all depends on how hungry you are.  Pork and beans was my favorite: hamburgers absolutely the worst.

[PHall]

How about the Chocolate Nut Roll or the dreaded Fruit Cake?

[SarDragon]

How about the Chocolate Nut Roll or the dreaded Fruit Cake?

Frooooot Caaaake!

[bosshawk]

I forgot about the fruit cake.  The crackers and jam weren't bad.  Like I said, after two weeks in the boonies, almost anything tastes good.  During that period, I was with the 1st Bde, 101 Abn Div and their cooks did pretty well with 7 in 1s.  Dak To sucked.

[Short Field]

The fruit cake worked well for driving stakes. 

[Rowan]

The fruit cake worked well for driving stakes.

Or to chock the wheels.

[Huey Driver]

One time, I got the hamburger/ meat pattie MRE. I decided to warm the burger up, put some cheese spread on, then put it between the two pieces of bread...BLEH. Worst idea ever!

IMO, the best MRE is the sloppy joe with the fudge brownie

[a2capt]

I can't imagine anything worse, ever, stench wise, than last nights passage from near Bakersfield to the bottom of the Tejon Pass. I could sarcastically swear it was why In-N-Out was empty. No one wanted to eat after 20 miles of pure stench. 6 of us on the way back from Wing Conference, and 3 other people were the only ones in the 40 minutes or so that we were there.

If MRE burger heated can smell worse than that..

[bosshawk]

Tony: this has nothing to do with Encampment Food, but you have obviously never been to Korea in June and July.  The smell would make the Central Valley smell like a rose garden.

[SarDragon]

Oh, yeah, BTDT.

[pilot97]

Haha, at FLWG summer encampment 2011 at the banquet, the last night when you didn't have to eat in five minutes or less, the people who got the biggest standing ovation were the cooks.




    C/Senior Airman

[jks19714]

The fruit cake worked well for driving stakes.

Or to chock the wheels.

Or you can insert a few of them into your body armor if you don't have the inserts. 

[Munkers]

IDWG Encampment 2011
first day we had these pretty good hamburgers, im pretty sure chef was still using it in the "meatloaf" on the final day.

[mocap84]

The worst food you could possibly have at an encampment is anything with beans. Burritos, Chili etc. 

[aceofspades]

New York Wing Encampment 2012, Stratton air national Guard Base; the only time I have gone back for seconds for meatloaf. It was excellent. So was the strawberry short cake, the cheese cake, the regular cake, the vegetables, the pancakes, the bacon (although you cant really mess up bacon, so...), and everything else.
There were only 2 problems. ]
1st, I didn't like the eggs, but I really only like my moms and grandmas eggs
2nd, I got syrup on my blues cover and pants, and it STILL HAS NOT COME OFF my cover. Its been a year!!

[a2capt]

A year later.. you can get a new cover.
..and bacon? Messed up? What some places pass off as bacon, you can use as a wheel shim.

[aceofspades]

It's not noticeable unless pointed out, but I bugs me every time I put it on. I'm just to cheap to buy a new one.

I don't call that bacon. That's burnt, stale pig.

[JayT]

It's not noticeable unless pointed out, but I bugs me every time I put it on. I'm just to cheap to buy a new one.

Then you're noncompliant with uniform regulations, which state that your items must be clean and in good repair 

[aceofspades]

Well, what they cant see cant hurt me 

[Майор Хаткевич]

Well, what they cant see cant hurt me 

_____ is what you do when no one is looking.