European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Mess Halls go modern gone with the grease in with the salad bars a photo by Brenda Hosier sgt. Arthur Ranney co a 440th signal to Cabral Fritsch Cavern Darm Pladt Germany get hit than from the Tala bar. Byte Boivin Wiir Burg bureaus roulade cordon Bleu. Sukiyaki salad bars fruit juices and caloric cards warnings about too much Salt or cholesterol advice on the walking or running you la have to do to Burn Oil what you be taken in. What sounds like some sort of gourmet health Center is actually a modern Day military dining facility. They be come a Long Way from the mess Halls of Iho Early 1960s. The emphasis now is on the lean mean Green Suiter and dining facilities reflect that change. The big change i be seen is All the things we offer soldiers to be physically lit i m talking about the Many choices of salad cooking without fat making nutritional awareness for every diner that comes in the laciliiy.1 do Post a weight watchers menu every Day. When i first got into food service we just fed soldiers what the master menu called Lor said master sgt. Sonny Ray facility manager of the 2nd so 2nd army Cav regt in Bamberg. Ray s facility popularly known As Ray s diner was named the army s Best Large dining facility in the 19th annual Phillip a. Connelly award Competition this year. Gone with the mess Hall term is Beetle Bailey s idea of a Cook namely the grizzled cookie slopping grub on a tray. In its place Are soldiers concerned with feeding the troops nutritionally balanced healthy meals in clean environments. The cookie stereotype is completely out the window in this facility Ray said. I really believe it s still happening throughout the army in some areas. But Lood service personnel and the support they can give the diner can eliminate that perception. No doubt soldiers still make big jokes about dining facilities and mess Halls. They always have. They always but food service personnel Aren t joking when it comes to eating properly. I think it s very important now that we Leach the Cooks Why we Cut the Salt in half Why we Don t Cook in fat because it s very important that everybody should be aware of physical fitness Ray said. With the food service personnel preparing health conscious meals it s Hen up to the Soldier to eat properly. It s my Job to provide that Low calorie diet but it s strictly up to the individual Soldier. It s his responsibility to take care of himself. It s like taking a horse to water. If he s going to drink it. It s up to him said Sec. Tim Newton manager of the 3rd in 64th Armor dining facility in Schweinfurt. Newton is available for advice but he says the unit s demanding physical training and Tough work Load keeps most of its soldiers out of the overweight danger zone. However he remembers the old Days when the master menu was the master of a Soldier s eating habits. Your food was issued according to that menu Newton said. You could open it up for any Day of the month and know exactly what you were going to have Lor that meal. If a customer came through the door and did t like whal you had he d turn around and go out because he did t have any Choice. You could go anywhere in Germany and that s what the dining facilities would All have to today variety is the spice of dining facility life. Salad bars Rule the Roost and instead of just one offering each of meat starch and vegetable As in the 1960s, facilities offer two or three. We have schnitzel we have bratwurst we have latin food Ray said. There s just a lot of variety every meal. We make beef stroganoff or Yok Soba which is beef and Spaghetti noodles mixed like a casserole. Soldiers Stop me on the Street and Tell me How great our salad bar is. That s a positive response. We always have five Basic salads Ihen we incorporate three from the army recipes and they vary from collage cheese and peaches to three bean Newton has seen the pendulum swing away from Short order food to healthy balanced meals. Up until four years ago Short order was the big thing Newton said. They d eat hamburger and French Fries for breakfast if you d feed it to them. Now i see them going More and More Back to the main line. They can t gel enough of vegetables which really surprises even though fancier named dishes now Dot the 1,800-recipe army menu system old favo riles still remain. They love Chili Mac Ray said. That tops right up there with Fried Chicken. Anything red Barbecue beef or ribs Chili Mac has increased in popularity a lot. If you fed them Barbecue liver they d probably like that. There s no such animal but they d probably eat and the use of cooking grease has gone the Way of the women s army corps. With the grills we had Back Ihen there were no lips to them. When i started out if you did t have a Quarter Inch of grease on that Grill you were wrong. Back then the eggs swam in grease Newton said. Today we keep it very Light and soon we re supposed to be gelling this Spray on system Pam. Once we get that in there Well quit using grease Erma Bombeck there was a time when i believed with All my heart thai my child s destiny was contingent upon his starting school with a Globe of the world Silling on his desk All the ads for globes said so. They always showed some kid of about 12 or 13 sitting in his room at a clean desk wearing a shirt and tie and dreaming of his future. There was a Blurb telling How important it was for a child to relate to the universe and then on the application card with the perforated lines around it was written. Yes i honestly believe when Henry Ford received his Globe of the world he found Detroit and Success Rush me a Globe today. I enclose my after the Globe arrived i never saw it until one Day when my husband went into our son s bedroom. He said the room was so cluttered he was going to pick up everything that was t Hung up and hide it. When the Page 16 the stars and stripes kid ran out of clothes he would convert him to neatness. He found the Globe under a pair of dirty underwear. Incidentally the plan failed miserably and was scratched when teachers began seating our son near open windows but Back to learning aids. Parents Are Pushover for anything that promises to get their kids better grades. A set of encyclopedias was supposed to give our children inquiring minds. Those ads were great. The entire family would sit around the dining room table leafing through the set and calling out. Look mama the history of soybeans with in reality after the kids leafed through and earmarked the pages showing naked roman statues and natives of new Guinea their interest waned. For the last several years there has been a big push by advertisers to Send children into the academic wars with calculators word processors hernia editions of wednesday. August 19.1987 dictionaries and organizer notebooks. Most of the students Are Lucky to show up with a Pencil in their pocket. I say you can t make a pocket pen plastic protector student out of a Guy whose locker is being sealed off for health reasons. Learning aids. The real ones. Never change. Kids go to school if they can dress like everyone else have the same name scrawled across their gym shoes and the same animal on the pocket of their shirts. Their own wheels beat the Heck out of a pen with a three year guarantee. We discovered through experience that the Best incentive to learning is Plain old Parent inflicted fear. Make decent grades or go out and make a living. The math Flash cards just did t get those kinds of results. Neither did the High intensity study Lightl c lot an Tui Tenn syncom
