>  CS> and handle any heavy duty gear for safety reasons.  Mostly this was a
 >  CS> mongolian BBQ day sort of thing.
 >
 > BBQ day?  Oh how you talk. :)

 CS> Sure!  Mongolian night!  Didnt get to do it as often on the ESSEX as
 CS> there were toomany to feed to get'em through the lines, but smaller
 CS> ships do it all the time.  Anytime out for more than 3 weeks, we'd have
 CS> one.

Man, you guys lived well!  :) 

 > Now and again, while on Guam, the rec fund would throw a steak cook out
 > down at the beach, but this happened maybe 2-3 times during my tour.

 CS> Steel beach picnic.  Done topside on the grills.  Normally the CPO's do
 CS> the cooking and give the MS's the day off ;-)  3-4 times a year at
 CS> least.

Yeah, about the same thing on Guam - not sure the CPO's did the cooking as 
much as it was kinda of do-it-yourself cookout.  Grab a steak and pop it on 
the grill. 

 >
 > Baked until tender?  Wow, what a concept!

 CS> Hehe southern guys would ask for a little extra grilling time, 1 min
 CS> per side on the flat grill did that.  Me, I liked'em tender.

One minute is pretty thin for me. :)  I'd probably go for a bit more cook 
time myself.

 >
 > It was the only thing that seemed be fairly consistant regardless of the
 > base.  I guess the formula was pretty simple, so simple that even the Navy
 > cooks could follow it and turn out a decent meal. :)

 CS> FTM did that reasonably well but ESSEX added sausage and stuff to it
 CS> and make also a clam spagetti to die for!


Never had the clam stuff of course.  Ground beef as I recall?


Do seamen still do mess cooking now?   Only time I got caught up in that 
was while OGU at the foot of 32nd street - and of course the week or so in 
boot camp.


Horrible duty, and one big motivator to get to 3rd class. :)



 
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