Our Daily Bread
Oct 17, 2022
The Army chow hall at Fort McCoy was actually run by civilian contractors, not military cooks. And pretty much anything that could be boiled, was served to us boiled. Even meat, like hamburgers, steaks, and various chops, were put in hot water after being cooked.
I was told that this was actually quite common in the Midwest, especially in the Great Lakes regions where Fort McCoy is at (Wisconsin). I didn't see "boiled everything" at all Army chow halls I went to, it did certainly seem to be a regional thing.
The Army has to feed a lot of people very quickly, so there are limits to the types and varieties of chow they can cook up. Boiling is a pretty convenient way to do it, so I suppose I can understand working within the limits one is given. But it got old pretty quickly.
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