<p>Food was not bad, and the same that was served at NASS. The difference is after having the same meals for four years you are sick of them.</p>
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<p>That’s certainly true, but one cannot deny that there has been a marked reduction in quality over the years.</p>
<p>In my day it was not at all uncommon to be served a dinner of prime rib a jus with all the fixin’s. I mean REAL prime rib, where they served a platter full of slabs of beef. GOOD beef. Then there were Beat Army cakes, Sea and Field (Surf and Turf, where it was sirloin and imitation lobster instead of fillet and the real thing, but still DARN good), etc., etc.</p>
<p>By the end of my time there, the prime rib was long gone, Beat Army cakes vanished my Plebe Year, and Surf and Turf wasn’t served as often.</p>
<p>And then there was the ONE night they served “Schalm Casserole”. It’s the ONE night in the entire four years where I think EVERY SINGLE MID ate PB&J sandwiches. It was just awful even to look at.</p>
<p>Other foul balls? You betcha. Brachioli (sp?) that we nicknamed “hamsters” for one, and without fail it was breakfast sandwiches on Wednesday mornings and sliders that afternoon. Not that the sliders were bad…</p>
<p>Still, it’s been what… 18 years? … since I last ate there, so all I have to offer is memories. Too bad, really. I snuck a peek at King Hall as they were finishing up the Mitscher Hall wing. WOW!</p>
<p>man that sounds nasty. But you know I am so focussed on goin there that the food could never phase me! You should see what they serve down here in highschool I have never eaten a school lunch once in four years in Nashville Tennessee.</p>
<p>You should see what they used to pass off as “food” at Ney Hall in Newport (It’s where the NAPSters eat). YIKES!</p>
<p>I hope that got fixed sometime between then and now…</p>
<p>The really crazy thing is that the Navy’s (somewhat) equivalent to the Michellin Star is the Ney Award. Go figure! :D</p>
<p>From th estories I have heard, the food is NOTHING like it used to be. Even if you consider that it is an institution, the food can be pretty bad, bland, burned, stiff, tasteless, etc., etc., etc.</p>
<p>PLUS, add the fact that you will eat some meals about 200 times while you are here and, well, anything would get old. So, you make the best of what you are served and move on.</p>