Still trying to work out what that flat grey thing is on that photo of the US navy meal.

[nickiquote@mstdn.social]

With nutrition like this, there’ll be more than one blockade in the strait, if you get my meaning.

[sir_osis_of_liver@beige.party]

@Nickiquote

WTF? Our equipment was old as hell, but our hot food was top notch in the Canadian Army. The MRE/IMPs were hit or miss, but still one hell of a lot better than that.

Gross.

[tlb73@topspicy.social]

@Nickiquote
I think it's a slice of donner meat as well.
Perhaps it's been steamed?

[nickiquote@mstdn.social]

@TLB73 Ah, for health reasons.

[nickiquote@mstdn.social]

@Sir_Osis_of_Liver I imagine the Canadian Army marches on a stomach full of poutine.

[tlb73@topspicy.social]

@Nickiquote
Yeah, that's probably it.
Or it's soylent grey...

[sir_osis_of_liver@beige.party]

@Nickiquote

Poutine, maple syrup, a double-double and we march all night.

[pkyo@kind.social]

@TLB73 @Nickiquote

There's no doubt about the carrots being carrots. If the lumpy patty on the right is a burger (meat), then the grey thing would likely be either a starch or another vegetable. My guess: a slice of eggplant, also known as aubergine.

However, of the lumpy thing is a starch, then the grey slice must be meat.

[alessandro@cosocial.ca]

@Nickiquote

Essentially yes, but you can get a store-bought version here that comes in pre-cut slices that look like that.

Verify Your Identity

(www.walmart.ca)

[nickiquote@mstdn.social]

@alessandro Ah I can see that. They’ve done horrible things to it though.

[marjolica@social.linux.pizza]

@Nickiquote well, it really does look like the insole of a boot. Though when Chaplin eat his boot in the Gold Rush it was actually made of licorice.

[nickiquote@mstdn.social]

@marjolica I was going to include a gif of that.

[alessandro@cosocial.ca]

@AlexanderVI

It is actually different! Beef rather than lamb, and instead of tzatziki it's "Donair sauce" made with condensed milk, vinegar, and garlic powder. No worse than Tikka Masala being quintessentially English, although it is admittedly odd.

@Nickiquote

[airwhale@beige.party]

@Nickiquote

It's the part of the meal classified as "vegetables, fresh" probably.

[nickiquote@mstdn.social]

@Sir_Osis_of_Liver In East London if you order a double-double you get double pie and double mash.

[sir_osis_of_liver@beige.party]

@Nickiquote

Now that looks interesting.

Like my coffee, I'd stick with a regular (single) order though.

[babblingaboutstuff@mastodon.world]

@Nickiquote

it looks a tiny little bit like konjaku but if you told me to imagine a slice of a boiled or steamed loaf of a pasted mixture of all of the following ingredients* or some of them in the least possible appetizing way than that would be what i imagine.

* (fatty) meat; tofu; tahini/sesame seeds; some kind of grains or flour; maybe some alibi egg plant for additional grey color enhancement.

[mothninja@beige.party]

@Nickiquote

[davidbcohen@twit.social]

@Nickiquote I presume Hegseth renamed it to the Department of War because there was no way he could defend that.

[mothninja@beige.party]

@Nickiquote and also, fucking hell, there is not a single vitamin nor mineral anywhere on that plate, no wonder they're not winning