Favorite/Worse Meal

[Ashore]

After reading apricotripper's Lams fry thread and Iain's post I was thinking of my worse meal experance which was live baby octopuses on a tower of hot boiled rice in Korea
THe best was also seafood fresh grilled gar fish in Perth W.A.





Don't take life too seriously; No one gets out alive.

[Forest Gump]

My kids would say the bean curry I just cooked up for them. Too spicy, too hot, don't like it. It must of been the Bolts curry powder that I put in, that did the damage.


For me it must be Mc Donalds.
Daniel

[Schtoo]

Worst?

Practically any sashimi aside from salmon and tuna.

I'm talking squid, octopus and sea urchins folks. Not just fish flavoured chewing gum stuff.

Best?

Not that fussy, but could give vital organs for a good lamb roast occasionally. Plenty of the local food ranks pretty highly, especially the thoughtfully named Niku-jaga. Direct translation is meat and potato. :D

[DanP]

I'm with Gump on the Lamb Roast.

Worst by far is brussel sprouts. The only, well, anything (not just food), that can make me dry reach.

Dan

[kiwigeo]

Not that fussy, but could give vital organs for a good lamb roast occasionally. Plenty of the local food ranks pretty highly, especially the thoughtfully named Niku-jaga. Direct translation is meat and potato. :D

Chances of getting a lamb roast where you are are very slim. Whereabouts in Japan are you living?

[Iain]

Worst:
Three here, #1 A take away curry from a filthy little dive in Ringwood near the motorbike shops.
#2 When spending a couple of weeks with the Army from the RAAF, regimental boiled cabbage, and almost anything else they cooked.
#3 Reindeer meat in Kamchatyka.
Best:
McDonalds in Alaska immediately after we got out of Kamchatyka and any good food, especially my rare beef Wellington.

[Gingermick]

Eggs benedict for breakfast with frech orange juice.

Caesar Salad for lunch

(cholesterol reduction op for smoko)

Weber roasted pork for tea.

[Jack E]

#2 When spending a couple of weeks with the Army from the RAAF, regimental boiled cabbage, and almost anything else they cooked.

I'm with Iain.

Worst - Anything cooked by the Army.

Anything cooked by the RAAF was pretty good, when we were lucky enough to be let in to their mess.

RAAFies might dress like stewards but in their messes they get treated like kings, you don't even have to take your plate away, someone else does it for you. :D :D :D :D

Best - SWMBO's lamb shanks cooked slowly in red wine served on a bed of mashed potatoes. A good Rhogan Josh is up there too!!

Jack.

[Driver]

Worst: a school lunch we were served at least once per week. It consisted of a grey and unidentifiable meat that had allegedly at some point been roasted but had subsequently been immersed in warm water; watery and runny mashed potato; pale, limp and bitter-tasting cabbage (I still can't eat cabbage more than 40 years later) and either soggy carrots or pale peas - both utterly tasteless. This main course was usually followed by a pink jelloid substance called junket. I've never come across this particular abomination anywhere else than at school. I still shudder at the memory - ugggghhh! :eek:

Best meal: There are several. My lovely wife cooks a delightful pea and ham soup (well, actually, the meat content is provided by either pork or bacon spare ribs) it's known in our house as loop-de-loop - de standing for delicious!

At a favourite restaurant in Fremantle, they do a seafood platter for two or more - sensational!

There's an Italian restaurant in Perth that serves a calamari and chickpea broth that is a real surprise - very tasty!

I could go on but I'm beginning to drool on the keyboard!

Col

[DavidG]

Worst : Anything that looks back at me...... particularly a bowl of sheeps eye soup..... :eek: :eek: :eek: :(

Best : Too many to choose from but I do like a nice roast leg of lamb with fresh mint sauce and most of swmbo's asian cooking. :D :D :D

[echnidna]

YUK - tripe and white sauce - Smoked cape cod
and the foulest of all, my old man used to cook mutton birds when i was a kid.
the whole house used to stink of them.

YUM -braised bunny

[womble]

worst: thai. it just is.


best: huge slab of rib fillet steak on a bed of mashed sweet potato served at a restuarant called 'villa romano' on the esplanade here in cairns.

[Thommo]

Worst - anything with tofu in it

Best- reef and beef:D


Regards Thommo

[AlexS]

Best:
1. Roast lamb with baked spuds, onions, & carrots, peas with mint sauce
2. Anything that comes out of the sea, except for anchovies. :)

Worst:
1. Cabbage & pumpkin - only fit for feeding to cattle or the compost heap
2. European food in Japan - the egg toast with jam & wasabi springs to mind :(
3. Tripe

Re RAAF cooks - many years ago when I ran with the Sale HHH, there was a RAAF cook who was a master at turning anything into a culinary delight - he also used to run cooking classes ( :rolleyes: ) for the local ladies. If the food in the messes was anything like what he cooked for us, the RAAF is living pretty well. Far better food than the army baitlayers dished up to us.

[Iain]

RAAF food was excellent for the troops, the Officers Mess was even better with silver service on special occassions (although we had to wear mess attire, cumberbund, white jacket etc).
We would often invite colleagues from the Army and RAN to mess events and they would often vie for an invitation.
I believe nothing has changed.

[Jack E]

We used to call the Army cooks "fitters and turners".

Fit the food into a pot and turn it into s@!# :D :D :D

Jack.

[Iain]

The other Army favourite was; Who called the cook a c***, who called the C*** a cook!
Another memorable meal was on the USS (forgotten), had a rump steak, it was alright but every steak was the same size, shape etc.
The joys of TVP, makes you lose a bit of interest.

[kiwigeo]

Sounds like drilling companies and the armed forces get their cooks from the same source.

Was sitting eating my lunch in an onshore oil rig galley one day when the Rig Supervisor got up from his table and complained to the cook that his steak was too tough and demanded that he do him another one.

The cook promptly dragged out another steak....dumped it on the bench, placed a tea towel over the steak, jumped up on the bench and started jumping up and down on top of the steak in his Blumdstones. After about 10 minutes of this the cook calmly popped the steak onto the hotplate and then served it to the still stunned Rig Supervisor.

Needless to say there were no more complaints from anyone about the food!

[Driver]

Someone wise told me a long time ago:

"Don't insult the cook, son - he can always **** in the soup!"

[Iain]

Someone wise told me a long time ago:

"Don't insult the cook, son - he can always **** in the soup!"
My dad always told me you can't pea soup :rolleyes:

[Hagrid]

best meal was at tetsuya's.
worse was building a playground for Macers in Warrnambool ment i had to stay on site for meals not good.

regards
Hagrid

[Driver]

My dad always told me you can't pea soup :rolleyes:

Go and stand in the corner and hang your head in shame! :p

[ptc]

Best Yorkshire Pudding,
Black pudding.
Worst
Greasy lamb

[Baz]

Iain, you obviously never dined in the airmens mess, we didn't call the cooks "tucker f#####'s" for nothing, the only time you got a decent feed was when you were on late shift and had steak and eggs cooked on the spot. The sergeants mess was better.
Cheers
Barry

[Harry72]

Worst; anything from McCarboards
Best; Anything my sweet SWMBO makes(yes shes looking over my shoulder!)

[Iain]

Iain, you obviously never dined in the airmens mess, we didn't call the cooks "tucker f#####'s" for nothing, the only time you got a decent feed was when you were on late shift and had steak and eggs cooked on the spot. The sergeants mess was better.
Cheers
Barry
Wrong, I did for a couple of years at Rad School, Pt Cook and Frognell before OTS and 1AD.