Meals at USMA

When I deployed for the invasion of Haiti our LOG officer messed up and got a single lot of T-Rats that were all the same. Ham and cheese loaf. For breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Every day for two weeks. At one point a pilot lost it during chow, stood on a table and started shouting "Soylent Green is people!! They're feeding us people!!" The commander was not amused.

I just had flashbacks of T-Rats. I need to go sit in the corner for awhile and get those memories out of my brain. They made MREs look amazing. Ham & Cheese Loaf... (looks deep into the night with a traumatized expression).

Can you find a link of what it looked like? Google shows what looks like an appetizing hot pocket.
 
@jl123 - I"ve heard mention of Grade C meat served in the mess hall. It makes me shudder.
Lately they have been experimenting with soy and my cadet has some 'colorful' vocab to describe those menu options.
DD is not a fan at all of the "Mystery Meat." She is NOT fond of the dinners there.
 
Can you find a link of what it looked like? Google shows what looks like an appetizing hot pocket.
A quick search did not turn up any good pictures but they were NOT hot pockets. They were called "T-Rats" because they came in sealed, covered trays. You would just put them in boiling water to heat them up. It was meant as a way to get troops a supplement to MRE's or C-Rats, but as Hoops wrote they were not very tasty. Especially when your LOG officer got the same type for every meal.
 
Gotta say: this thread cracks me up!! Did anyone notice my original post was from 2007?? In 2007, I had a cadet candidate, not even a cadet yet. The food issue comes up every year or so...since 2007: I have a 2012 grad and a soon to be 2019. Never once have they complained about being hungry. I didn't raise picky eaters...and they find a way to get enough calories to make it through each day. This is a non-issue as far as I'm concerned.
 
It could have been a BCE date, chiseled in cuneiform, and we would still have jumped in with food comments, sea/air/war stories and happily continued the thread for centuries.
 
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