Mildly Infuriating

Now do modern prison and public school food for comparison.

An army recruiter came to my extremely poor elementary school, and could basically say anything to us kids. Told us that if we joined the army you can get whatever food you want, at all, from the mess hall and a chef will cook it for you. And yes, being able to get food was a motivating factor for some of us.

I asked if you could get eggs Benedict every day if you asked for it. He looked a little nonplused, then said "oh yeah sure! Every day!"

I knew at that point he was full of it and told him so.

Devastation caused by US service men and women:

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/6/8/satellite-images-show-destruction-of-the-us-israel-war-on-iran

As a former enlisted who thankfully got medical'd out of the service very early, the ONLY thing I find mildly infuriating 8s that it looks like my old school lunches.

Why do they deserve to get better food than our children?

Anyone still in can kiss my ass. Most enlisted joined within the last 10 years where it's been a ShitShow since Trump1.0. I joined when I thought Obama was going to be different, but am glad I got out not long after it became clear how much he loves drone strikes. I would have just gone awol when trump showed up.

Modern military deserves the food we give to homeless people. Once we improve the lives of those who have it worst, we can think about getting them better food.

Ohh if you’re pissed at this just wait until you hear that the administration is funding the war out of the payroll for the armed services.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/27/trump-iran-war-navy-budget

When sailors stop getting paychecks on time it’s gonna be lit.

pro tip: stop fucking joining this shitshow.

Ok chat, what the fuck is this?

My dad was on an aircraft carrier when he served. One of his favorite stories to tell was when his ship was riding out a hurricane and fishing trawlers couldn't get into port to unload their catch. The trawlers sold the ship for next to nothing tons of the biggest shrimp they had ever seen. It took 3-4 bites to eat each shrimp. The sailors stuffed themselves on shrimp for the next week.

The latest Chinese propaganda has been posting pictures of their aircraft carrier meals.

If the US ever tried to invade Canada, we could probably convince the soldiers to change sides with something as shitty as Tim Horton's.

aka school lunches. pretty sure theyre usin the same playbook

I mean, when you literally sign up to be cannon fodder, I don't know what you expect. America has always treated troops and veterans like livestock. You could simply choose a career other than oppressing the third world for oil profits.

Meanwhile in the Finnish army we conscripts got pancakes, fish, meatballs, burgers, all kinds of decent food, and you were allowed to portion yourself so you could get quite full. It was on par if not slightly better than regular old school food.

Sucks to suck, don't join the fascist army.

They deserve even worse. Don't advocate for feeding the Epstein soldiers.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/07/07/what-s-in-a-prison-meal

Actual photos of prison food, just for comparison.

Is that an actual shoe sole in the second picture?

As a non-american

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In the royal Australian Navy, we got fed ridiculous amounts of potatoes au gratin, sans the gratin. It was like big trays of thin -ish sliced potatoes, drowned in white sauce, and walked past a tepid oven. The potato was still mostly raw. Thankfully nobody seemed to like the broccoli but me (because it was unsalted), so I'd get a mountain of broccoli and jazz it up with salt, pepper, and butter pads.

I think we got some kind of meat but for the life of me I can't remember any specific meat dish except an inedible beef stroganoff with a thin gravy made from what tasted like all the burnt bits scraped off all the other pans, blended in some dishwater. That thing would ruin your day.

The hardest part was only having about 30 minutes to eat, and that included standing in line, which meant you were calorie constrained by how much you could stuff in your mouth in the 10 minutes of sitting time.

Good fuck em. Why would you ever join the military? I don't care if you're stupid and poor, I'm stupid and poor, I'd never join that dumb shithead factory

This is the exact same stuff they fed us when I was in Iraq 20 year ago. They gave the contract to the lowest bidder who bought the cheapest food possible then pocketed the "leftover" cash. This isn't new. The difference between then and now is our families could send us care packages and we didn't have cell phones to post about the mystery meat. I don't want anyone to eat like this but I also don't know why everyone is surprised by wartime food. Food SUCKS when you deploy, it's why they give troops the big send off steak and lobster dinner. Best way to avoid giving our troops trash food is to NOT DEPLOY THEM.

MRE's are better than that slop

Looks like prison food lol