What is the worst meal you have had in the military? What was the best?

Worst, Desert Storm, T Rat Chicken Cacciatore. Or better know as chicken catch a rat. Best was in the Marshall Islands, every Saturday night was steak night.

Worst: orange nut cake. Projectile vomit. Haven't had any "orange" food since (mid-80's).

Best: coffee, in the field.

Next best: Thanksgiving dinner. Cooks did it right.

The worst has some competition. Let's see, the Ham and Lima Beans out of the old C-rations, the eggs in either C's or MRE's, the Barbequed Pork Patties in the original MRE's and the two bricks they used to put in them marked Freeze Dried Beef and Pork.
Best meal? That triple Whopper with Cheese and a Chocolate Shake at the Burger King after eating MRE's for three weeks or so always seemed memorable.

First meal in the army, Ft. Leonard Wood. Got fed after 0030 hours (cold sausage, cold mashed potatoes and cold gravy like substance, the cold coffee was good) . The Best, 2/23 Inf, coming out of three weeks training at Yakima Firing Center the night before convoy headed back to Ft. Lewis (steak, bake potato and a coke) .

Worst meal: The cans of beef in C-rats looked, smelled, and tasted like dog food. Best meal: Surf and Turf night at the KBR contract chow hall at Al Assad Air Base, Iraq. They did a very good job on the steaks considering where and when it was.

MRE pork patty with maple syrup. Stayed in too long whew...Lol, Best, steak and lobster on carrier.

Worst meal I ever had was spaghetti with meat sauce canned collard greens and canned mixed veggies that was delivered on the back of a truck during a field exercise. The spaghetti was so overcooked, then sat and became gummy to the point that it could be molded like clay. The sauce was over-spiced and so salty it was not edible. The collard greens were mushy and cold. I would have eaten an omelet MRE instead, if given a choice.

Best meal was Thanksgiving on Ramstein AFB in Germany. It's typical for many DFACs to conduct a special Thanksgiving dinner that allows the staff to showcase how much they can actually cook if allowed to. This particular group of Airmen (I assume) made the best meal I have ever had in the Army.

Tuna salad sandwich top piece of bread was dried out, bottom piece of bread was wet. The lettuce was the rib of the leaf, brown and bitter. The French fries were soaked by juice from the canned pears on cottage cheese. The carrot sticks were "flexible."

Bagnasties weren't really nasty especially the jimmy Dean French toast sandwich it was awesome.

SPC Diana Dobbs the best chow halls I encountered was at two Closed Air Bases in Germany. One was at Rhein Main AB, the other was this small Air Base in Kerpen Germany the food there was like gourmet it makes me hungry thinking about it.

Peace!