[Sca-cooks] Re: Submarine Food was NTC Orlando WAY OP

[Susan Fox-Davis]

More Navy/Lobster fu:

A friend of ours used to be a Navy diver.  On a day of days, they boys dove for
lobsters and asked their Philipino cooks to cook them up.  The cooks said OK but
we want half.  Half?  That seemed like an awful lot but they agreed.  Well.
What the white boys didn't realize that what the Philippino cooks wanted were
the head ends for their favorite lobster soup, while the Navy lads feasted on
the tail ends and both sides thought themselves the winners in the deal.
Believe in the no-lose scenario!

Selene Colfox
selene at earthlink.net

Olaf wrote:

>     Which Boat were you eating on?  The food on board the Finback was
> usually good to excellent.  Have the Lobstermen stopped "recycling" their
> old pots by putting them in the channel at Groton?  An old agreement to get
> the Nuc's into Groton was that any damage done to the Lobster pots by
> Submarines was to be paid for by the Navy, so local Lobstermen used to put
> their old damaged pots very close to the channel where the Boats come in,
> then when the boats snag them the Navy pays for a brand new pot.  To show
> there are now hard feelings the Lobstermen would give the Boat 2
> lobsters/man (usually culls or larger ones that wouldn't bring the best
> price at market).  The Finback, which is now razor baldes was homeported in
> Norfolk, pulled in to Groton once & managed to snag a bunch of them so we
> got to have a lobster feast. You know some people don't like lobster?  I
> wound up eating as much as I could get in me-it was a grand feast.
>     We also had Surf & Turf and Steam Ship Round of Beef,  at least once a
> month. We also had steak, pork chops, pork roast, beef roast & fried chicken
> at least once per week.  In port we had lots of salads, fresh fruit, milk &
> eggs.  Our cook was into baking bread so we had a lot of fresh bread too.
>     Now if you are talking eating in Zero gang quarters (also known as the
> Ward Room) I will have to tell what the Philippino cook used to season the
> soup when he was upset with the officers.  Or about the time when he made
> the giant Chocolate Chip cookie for the CO & used half Hershie & half Exlax.
> Have you ever wondered why the experienced "riders" eat in crews mess?
> Pax,
> Olaf