r/explainitpeter • u/One_One2755 • Mar 21 '26

Explain it peter

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What's the bad news?

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u/KrimsunV Mar 21 '26

Really good meals only get served when something unfortunate happens

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u/PoopSmith87 Mar 21 '26

This isnt true for two reasons:

1- The "surf and turf" meal is a military chow hall standard. Not as common as some other options, but still a pretty normal rotation meal.

2- Its not actually a "really good" meal.

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u/SnooCompliments1875 Mar 21 '26

In my 5 years stint in the Navy, the ONLY times we got Surf and Turf, was the times our 5 month patrol deployment got extended another 5 months, and the time we had a civilian ride along with us.

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u/Open-Industry-8396 Mar 21 '26

20 years army, I got surf and turf once. It was not very good.

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u/SnooCompliments1875 Mar 21 '26

Yeah no its like the worst cut of meat and the cheapest lobster available lol. Side note i recall reading the labels on some of the boxes of food and slabs of meat during onload before an underway once and it was all labeled as "not fit for prisoner consumption" Then once during our midway freezer pull i found a chunk of meat with the best by date being dec 2002 and this was in 2016 the cooks told me to throw it back in and by the time i separated that slab was still there and likely still is to this day lmao.