European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse Darkest deutschland by John sh4rmk the army lately has taken to muttering Public oaths to the effect that it intends to turn traditional Chow system this probably will have Little effect on the average i since for years mess sergeants seem to have been Reading their recipes in just this exactly what brought on this twinge of culinary conscience i cant say for the accumulated aftertaste of a dehydrated most veterans of the choline will agree that it is basically a pretty Good however there is a certain ominous note in the army plans for the Kitchen one of its objectives seems to be to convert the traditional mess Hall from the drab affair of soap suds and Gravy stains that it is into a military version of the Midtown Tea there is even whispered talk of dropping the term mess in favor of the More elevated dining Hall and of re baptizing All mess sergeants elegance is the now this May be Fine for the boys at Camp or some other of the stateside resorts in which the Kitchen help and the customers can Deal with each other in some common but the overseas mess supper a rather More complicated i think it is about time someone pointed out the i can speak from our mess Hall has gone very elegant lately and i suspect that it is being used As a kind of culinary Bikini to test the awful possibilities of the army atomic age everything ran along beautifully until it came to the matter of printed either the germans who work in our dining Hall miss the Point of having a menu or else a squad of saboteurs has gotten Loose in the the fact remain that we came into breakfast one picked up the neatly Type written cards on the tables and were confronted with this my first reaction was to reach for the hangover pills and dark apparently my breakfast companion saw the same for he called the waitress Over and asked in the most courteous tone he could Muster up at that time of what in hell was Frest she explained apparently offended that he want acquainted with that particular variety of the it is milk just the Way it is in the which i thought was a pretty ambiguous Way of explaining on the strength of her i not Only ordered the Frest milk but took a Chance on the Oast turned out to be just what it almost looked then went on to the Trost and which a strange resemblance to Ordinary buttered i never did find just what Fortes i pictured them As a kind of puffy fish which feeds on anchovies and stuffed but i didst have the courage to try i explained to the waitress that i never ate Fortes for there were no serious aftereffect from this typographically spectacular meal so i just chalked it up to seme ones bad Day on the but when we arrived for lunch that same we were met with an even Wilder display of the menu included my what Are these pork she pronouncing them what kind of pork shops Are they i from she explained thank i hoping that my ulcer would fail to recognize a staffed pork shop when it saw i decided to fight out the matter of the with the i asked him what is this stuff he said i but Are they Psi line potatoes Are they sir Are they Prail nne potatoes i i will admit that i might not have had the pronunciation Down George looked at me silently for a perhaps you would rather have the buttered he i George went out to the Kitchen and returned a moment i am we have no buttered that for the chef by whatever illiterate Pixie made out the menu for outdid we started with a it didst take me very Long to figure out what nou less soup obviously it was soup without i also recognized part of the second item when it was brought but just to make surer i called Over the wait i pointing to hot Chase went on to boiled beef with matched turnips and overgrown and wound up with a Fine Chocalas padding it was that i heard it was i i stayed in my Billet and opened a can of some stuff i had Laid away in a moment of pessimism on be it want bad at i dont know How you spell it but it tasted just like 18
