Encampment Food

[FlyTiger77]

They say that at encampment, the food's mighty fine!

...A roll fell off the table, and killed a friend of mine.   

Yes, somebody got it!

A chicken jumped off the table and started marking time!

[Spaceman3750]

They say that at encampment, the food's mighty fine!

...A roll fell off the table, and killed a friend of mine.   

Oh yeah... My chicken jumped off the table and started marking time .

[GTCommando]

They say that at encampment, the food's mighty fine!

...A roll fell off the table, and killed a friend of mine.   

Oh yeah... My chicken jumped off the table and started marking time .

They say that at encampment, the meat is mighty fine...last night we had ten puppies, this mornin' only nine. 

[GTM SGT Frazier]

The beds are mighty fine, how the heck should i know ive never slept in mine.

[Cool Mace]

The worst we have had was breakfast pizza the entire week!! Every breakfast.

Breakfast pizza: Soggy dough patty with nasty cheese topped with sausage looking stuff....

(BUMP?)

I loved the breaskfest pizza! That's the only thing I look forward to at encampment anymore...
Ok not really. But I don't mind that stuff.

I've never had bad food at encampments. Guess I've just been lucky in the past 10 years?

[mclarke]

The beds are mighty fine, how the heck should i know ive never slept in mine.

They say that the toilets are mighty fine. You flush em down at 7 and they come back up at 9.

[CadetHarry]

Ahhhhh Tri Wing Encampment 2011 I seem to actually miss the chow even though it was disgusting I miss the line into chow with the Chief screaming at us "90 degrees why are you looking around!!!!!"

[CadetHarry]

^ What happens is that should a person drink a large amount of milk and then do strenuous activity in a hot environment the milk will become angry and cause your stomach to ache. 

I think it may be a "myth", but have heard and seen milk being off limits to military members some places.  I am no Doctor, so I really do not know the true reasons behind it.  Just my assumptions.

Medically it is the combination of Milk and Meat with a lil heat is what upsets the stomach

[Eclipse]

Excessive consumption of dairy is also an issue.

There's a 79 in my wing that involves finding a cadet in the bathroom vomiting and sick.  After an evening of re-hydration and
similar treatment for an upset stomach, it was discovered that he had consumed what was described as "a significant quantity of cottage cheese"...

It is superficially funny, but also a failure of his flight staff as apparently no one was monitoring what he was eating.

[Al Sayre]

I'm not so sure about that, the military has served tons of creamed beef in one form or another...

[Eclipse]

I'm not so sure about that, the military has served tons of creamed beef in one form or another...

Heh - which probably contained neither cream nor beef.

[Hawk_Girl]

I'm not so sure about that, the military has served tons of creamed beef in one form or another...

Creamed beef? or Corned beef?

[PHall]

I'm not so sure about that, the military has served tons of creamed beef in one form or another...

Heh - which probably contained neither cream nor beef.

And your vast military experience tells you this?

Small newsflash for ya, there are some really good cooks in the military.  And making "good" SOS is almost an art that is mastered by few.

[JC004]

I'm not so sure about that, the military has served tons of creamed beef in one form or another...

Creamed beef? or Corned beef?

Creamed beef as in creamed chipped beef...yes.  Had plenty of that on dry/hard toast, etc.   

[Hawk_Girl]

I'm not so sure about that, the military has served tons of creamed beef in one form or another...

Creamed beef? or Corned beef?

Creamed beef as in creamed chipped beef...yes.  Had plenty of that on dry/hard toast, etc.   

Sounds..... Interesting. I can honestly say that I have never eaten that.

[JC004]

It's good and pretty widely available, although probably most common in the east.  I have also seen it in bags at grocery stores - in the section that has the precooked refrigerated foods like pre-made macaroni and cheese or mashed potatoes - usually more near the breakfast things.  It is also available frozen.  It is good on toast or fried potatoes.  Also helps with dry toast that has been sitting on a warmer at your military food facility for a while.  I've seen it served on biscuits at military facilities.  Never had that elsewhere, but I guess an alternative to biscuits and gravy.  That's basically what it is, but has beef in it.

edit: I just found this.  It's an army recipe dating to 1910 for it:   http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Chipped_beef_on_toast

[PHall]

SOS on toasted English Muffins is a nice change. And it's pretty good too!

[bosshawk]

When I was on AD, a lot of SOS was made using hamburger instead of creamed Chipped beef.  In fact, I don't think that I ever had SOS in the Army that wasn't made with hamburger: I have made it at home with the creamed chipped variety.

[ol'fido]

I think I mentioned this earlier in the thread, but nothing turns the stomach like 35 straight days of T-Rat Corned Beef Hash for breakfast(Cobra Gold '89, Phitsanoluk, Thailand).

[AlphaSigOU]

The SOS recipe I made when I was a cook in the Air Force (DEATH FROM WITHIN!!!) had ground beef as one of the ingredients. Really easy to make; make up the roux (flour and butter), then add milk, ground beef, salt and pepper to taste. Cook until thickened and serve on biscuits, toast or on everything. If you prefer chipped beef instead of ground, you can add chopped dried beef.

Unfortunately, the SOS served at the PDR (Pacific Dining Room, the chow hall here on Kwaj) sucks.