This looks on par or worse than school lunch when i was in grade school. Looks like less too, somehow.

If I can only fix one I’m going with the school food.

The company that ran my alma mater's cafeteria also served kitchens. The food plan my college had selected was the one below what they serve in prison...

The rich school near me had the same thing. Navy medic came in to describe how amazing the navy treats you. Definitely not a recruiter, though. Made very clear up front that he wasn't there recruiting. Wink wink, nudge nudge.

I will say, that experience varies wildly by branch, and even chow hall to chow hall within a branch. I was in the Marines, and the "new" chow hall on Pendleton mainside (they opened it about a year after I got there, but that was 15 years ago now) was really pretty good. Solid breakfast burrito line, an omelet station where you could get real eggs, etc. Lunch and dinner had a few options, and a panini bar.

The chow hall we had before that one opened was a dump.

But then, I went TDY to an Air Force base. And let me tell you, that was better than most restaurants I've been to.

Army recruiter in elementary school? Wtf? Just when you think lemmy already showed you what it's like over there.. From "it sucks" to starship troopers's shit level.

told him so.

How did he respond?

Good for you.

So maybe they should all be in prison, but they should probably have better food than that their prison.

Isn't that like the first rule of history, always pay your military?

Ohhh that's bad. No pay and no food makes it difficult to run a ship.

Maybe. I would have thought there would have been brass pushed over the side just for that food but I don't know if that's happened.

For many, joining the US military is the only way out of poverty, a path to citizenship, or a way to a higher education. Some others just are victims of propaganda, or just genuinely sadistic, but unfortunately most of the people joining the military are victims of a failed education and social security system designed to bring more troops into the meat grinder.

EDIT: Holy moly. I do not condone US imperialism at all. I am not saying that people who fall into the poverty draft get a free pass either. What I AM saying is that the US war machine is a fucked system that results in endless atrocities abroad but unfortunately will only to continue unless we dismantle the institutions that blindly draw people to the machine so that these people who would otherwise be vulnerable can wake the fuck up and turn away from it. These systems include capitalism, propaganda, imperialism, jingoism, a failed education system, etc.. Chill out friends.

Thermal paste

Not sure if lead slab or a cursed pickle... Maybe both.

Boot insole

A strip of a dr scholl’s odor eater

A thin slice of protein loaf.

Well, it's gray of course.

😂 all I can see is insoles

Soylent Green

Reminds me of frozen gyro I've purchased. Honestly spiced well and tastes good but usually you fry it up to be a bit browned on each side, and then you put a few slices in a pita with tzatziki and onion, cucumber, and tomato.

On its own it's also fine, but basically just a meat / protein at that point.

slice of tube egg, aged to perfeggtion?

Why?

I will guarantee that you would not volunteer to go to jail and be sentenced to hard labor for your view on this. Lotta keyboard warriors that will defend a lot of people doing things to feed their family and escape poverty unless they are the US military specifically.

I was just wondering why this is mildly infuriating. I find it mildly hilarious. Dumb fucks joined up after the US went full mask off.

Get what ya get and don’t throw a fit.

Yum! Then sign me up for the "Chinese propaganda aircraft carrier" mission 😋

if i was a US soldier this would be the most demoralizing thing i could see

Legitimately, I’d like to say I was just making some principled stand, but when I was 18, “the food is famously terrible” was a bigger part of me not joining the military than I’d like to admit 😂

your honor, I object

Thank you for your service defending what this country stands for.

Ah, so the US is one of them "shithole" countries the pedophile likes to make fun of, huh?

Every accusation is a confession with them.

I find it crazy as hell that poutine isn't super common down here. Fries with cheese and gravy? That should be our national dish, damn it!

We have it in some of our northern states and we are not impressed. You can do better than that.

Every US male who turns 18 "volunteers" to be eligible to "volunteer" to die overseas for the Epstein class.

One can never get too much Asterix.

Yeah, about that school food comparison

Please note, these meals are recreations, and recreations only, based on the portions described by the food companies and corrections officials accused of skimping.

And this is what they proudly claim to be serving, the actual portions are smaller and the food is worse. This is the equivalent of the photos mcdonalds takes for their menu.

Right? NOBODY FORCED THESE FUCKS TO DIE FOR PEDOPHILES

Beiged mystery meat

Why?

Why would this be deserved for service men and women?

Pretty sure that when they enlisted, they had something else in mind.
And it's not always about the glory of the nation or other crap.

They didn't like unsalted broccoli and couldn't work out how to sprinkle salt on it?

That’s your opinion, there is a lot of benefit to joining

Fuck yea!

Back in the day they had ice cream ships... SHIPs... For ice cream...

How the mighty have fallen

All food should suck for the soldiers of your empire.

I also don’t know why everyone is surprised by wartime food.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

That's why awareness needs to be constant. It's why coke spends a billion a year on advertising despite "everyone knows what coca cola is".

The US military industrial complex is a prison. People sign up for it for social service benefits that first world countries get given to them as a human right.

Let’s get this out onto a tray………nice!!

While I get what you’re meaning, I am going to ask a question: do you treat criminals the same?

The way you see military, many of whom are from low income without many means of survival, as monsters because they join a government system that promises social services that harms so many. So a means to an end.

A criminal will steal or murder for similar reasons a person joins the military - except instead of social services, they’re taking what they need to survive. So do you think they deserve humiliation and degradation? Heck, prison food is similar.

Both are forced into making morally wrong choices that affect others outside of themselves but instead of anger at the system that creates these situations, you insult the people. It’s reactionary.

This from someone who knows multiple leftists who changed because of the military. So I see belittling them online as counterproductive to any type of coalition being made as it separates them from others who may hold similar if not the same beliefs.

Maybe that's why you don't sign up for their murder squad.

Nah. These bootlickers deserve much worse.

It's even funnier when you consider that this has been the case for millenia

I support execusion for the leaders, life sentences for the worse soldiers and few decades for the rest of murdered

I mean hasn't that been the case since forever?

No. There are culinary specialists that think instead of going down to storerooms to get another thing of tomato sauce for spaghetti, they can just cut what is left with ketchup as it needs replenishing. They are buddy fuckers and some of the laziest, most corrupt(?)(eg, you had to know someone, or be a woman, to get good food that wasn’t on the serving line) people I met in the service.

US soldiers describing a better meal

I thought it was a single dolma

I keep better company

I actually like gas station burritos. 😅

Looks like some carrots, a hamburg steak (ground beef patty) and a piece of roast beef, like what Arby's and similar fast food places serves, where the beef just comes in a plastic bag with basting juices and you basically just steam/wet bake it. Not a whole lot of opportunity for maillard browning to happen in a wet cooking environment like that, and when you cook beef hard for a long period of time (a good way to make sure it's safe to eat), it ends up grey in color.

The finest quality of gruel for their troops, thanks for their service LOL

Silver slab reminds me of the meat slices that Aldi sells in their frozen gyro kits, probably the same thing, a slice of homogenized mystery meat. Not sure about the blob

looks like large blood clot from a large domesticated animal. i would like to point you at the extremely GREY meat, what is that too.

the grey meat looks worst than spam, which is probably fine dining to them.

I've seen close to this in a stadium shitter.

Prisoners get better food because the guards know they there would be an incident otherwise

Isn't that the opposite of what they are known to do?

When the prison band ate, they began to wail

I think maybe a little misleading, but probably not fake. For the boxed meal, that shit happened all the time. It's just like going through the drive through.

For meals served on ships, most of the time you ask for what you want, they don't just give you what they have. If you have a piece of bread on your tray, that's because you only grabbed a piece of bread. Most of the time.

Sometimes there's just not a lot of options because you haven't been replenished in a while and the cooks have already done what they can to keep people from bitching at them constantly. Fresh fruits and vegetables are always the first to spoil, so eventually everything is canned, frozen, rehydrated, or reconstituted. Or baked from scratch, poorly.

I've seen these pictures attributed to USS Abraham Lincoln on some other sites.

That ship recently suffered a major supply crisis while it was on station in the middle east. The reason is that Iran was able to deny the use of all of the nearby bases with their drones and medium range missiles. Thus the US Navy resorted to resupplying Abraham Lincoln from Diego Garcia, which is thousands of miles away.

So it's plausible to me that these are real images, and they represent a very serious problem for the navy: both in terms of total calories and in the loss of morale from low quality.

In any case, Abraham Lincoln has since been relieved, and will make a liberty port call in Thailand after 245 days at sea.

Probably fake or misleading

fwiw the first and last images in this post both were first published in this USA today article back in April, attributed to anonymous crew members of the USS Tripoli and USS Abraham Lincoln.

There aren’t enough calories pictured in these images

My biggest complaint about the pics is the trays are different. The military probably has a standard tray that they buy, and likely wouldn't use a compostable lidded container as shown in pic one.

Idk... I feel like that kind of incompetence is almost unimaginable with an unprecedentedly well-funded organization known the world over for its logistical capabilities... But the people saying it's fake happen to be the biggest liary lying liars there ever were, so im a bit divided.

Caloric intake is one of the complaints of people on the ship...the tortilla one is for sure real, that's from when the stories first started coming out.

Almost certainly misleading, but the underlying truth is that shits fucked

They have been getting shafted because Iran destroyed the resupply hubs (months ago,) and the US admin and their hack armed services leaders neglected to send resupply ships from elsewhere.

Because we have all the wrong people in charge, even before this president.