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On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 11:49:08 -0500, "NotMe" <me@privacy.net> wrote:

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>"OCSDFW" <ocsdfw@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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>> Anyone know of a place that serves chipped beef?  Always like eating this. 
>> Saw it on TV the other day and got me wanting some.  They sell it at 
>> grocery stores in the frozen section (Swanson's) not horrible but of 
>> course not the best.  Its over salted but great on white toast.  Looking 
>> for a place in the North DFW area of town.
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>I recall what we called that in the military.  Sh|t on a Shingle. 
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As a kid, I never minded it but I never ate it every day either.  Had
a relative who served during and after WW2 in the Army, the Navy, and
the Coast Guard.  He said of the 3, he preferred Navy subs because
they ate like royalty: steaks, seafood, fancy desserts...the best.
Yep, Army SOS and plain navy beans were notoriously unpopular.  

Better than the Russian Army but this story points to Russian food
upgrades.  Barley porridge.  And America feared a nuclear war?  Maybe
a petard war!  Man, that's worse than plain oatmeal to defend your
country.



10-02-2011 17:17  Scripps
The Russian army is having a hard time filling its ranks with
draftees. About half of all potential recruits never show up for
induction. Bribes to obtain medical deferments are common, and there
is no real social stigma attached to draft dodging. In fact, it seems
more or less expected.

The undermanned army is now hoping to lure illegal immigrants into
joining with a promise of full Russian citizenship three years into a
five-year enlistment.

The draftees, if they show up, serve for 12 months, but the new
recruits face a vicious brutality, that Human Rights Watch called
inhuman, degrading and grossly abusive, at the hands of the
"granddads," soldiers serving the final six months of their
enlistment. Unsurprisingly, desertion is common.

Numerous studies have brought this to the attention of the officer
corps and the government with little to no effect.

But the Russian army has decided there might be an incentive to join
and even to stay for the entire 12 months -- better food.

The army is doing away with barley porridge, a staple of the military
going back to czarist times and widely described as inedible. It is
being replaced by buckwheat porridge, which is described as five times
more expensive but does not require the hours and hours of cooking
that the barley does.

The quicker preparation time means that the army has been able to fire
a large number of civilian cooks, who are not too happy about it.
Maybe we could hire a few of them to cook for death row inmates like
the one in Texas who ordered a huge last meal then refused to touch
it. At least with barley that's been boiled all day, he'd have an
excuse.

The article was published and distributed by Scripps Howard News
Service (www.scrippsnews.com).