I just had great mid-rats. Anyone familiar with the term (mid-rats)?

[DemoTex]

Country ham, three-cheese and scallion omelet, sliced tomatoes, and orange juice. Great mid-rats.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. I just had...

Country Ham Biscuits with Red-Eye Gravy. Yum City.

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Never heard of mid-rats

But then, I'm from the anti-Texas, Wisconsin. And we don't say scallion, we say green onion. :-)

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. "Midnight Rations"? I associate this with the late night meal served

on board the USS Kitty Hawk in the mess hall. Generally consisted of "sliders". Familiar with that term? Or "Autodog"?

[DemoTex]

6. "Sliders" and "autodog" are new to me. Clue me in!

I was exposed to the excellent concept of midrats at NAF Cam Rahn Bay in 1970-71. As an Army pilot flying Navy aircraft (SP-2E) from Cam Rahn (under NATOPS), the Navy treated us well. I gained 20 pounds between the beer at the movie and the midrats, later at night.


Two turnin', two burnin'!

[haele]

7. Sliders are "hamburgers"

greasy when fresh from the flat grill, hockey pucks as they've been sitting out for an hour or so... Autodawgs are boiled hotdogs that have been sitting in the steam pan for a couple days.
Actually, I've never been too sure that autodawgs weren't really pieces of old air hose or the center plug pieces of multi-transit packing blocks (brick red slick rubber blocks used in cableway transit between watertight spaces).

Haele

[DemoTex]

9. No, no, no! No "sliders" for the Army guests of the NAF officers mess.

It was always a culinary show. One night (at 11 pm), we showed up to checkered table cloths, candles, mounds of spaghetti with great meat sauce, salads, and Chianti wine. It was perfect timing against some other demoralizing events.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Isn't a "slider" specifically a White Castle hamburger?

Or do they have another name?

[cryofan]

12. Aw, yes, the mess hall on the Shitty Kitty....

....got food poisoning more than once there. THe problem was the mess cranks--they were mostly a bunch of messed up kids who got sent there after fucking up somewhere else, and they had HUGE attitude problems. I used to wonder if they deiberately messed up the food.

[BiggJawn]

4. Pretty damn good midrats.

I hope to be in bed B4 midrat time. 1100Z comes early...

[haele]

5. Sliders!

Sliders, chilly grilled cheese sandwiches, bug juice, coffee that tasted like diesel fuel and ten year old fish sticks.

All enjoyed in "mood lighting" ("darken ship" when all the passageway and major space lighting was red) while riding 20' seas in a flat bottomed, top-heavy, revamped seaplane tender.

Ahhh, the memories. No wonder I stuck to an underway diet of trail mix, beef jerky, Chick'n Biscuits and Cheese Whiz...

Haele

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. I remember "sliders" as being cheesburgers.

I assume the name either referred to the behavior of the cheeseburger on the grill or plate, or its effect on the sailor's GI tract...

"Autodog" refers to the soft ice cream dispensed from the machine. Picture the chocolate variety, dispensed in a little spiral swirl, softly melting, and a certain image is evoked... hence the name.

[cryofan]

11. That brings back some memories......BAD memories

Yeah, I have scarfed my share of midrats. On Navy bases from Florida to California to Illinois, and on a carrier, a sub, a destroyer.

[puerco-bellies]

13. USS Barney

The freaking cooks were so lazy they would only serve onion soup and warm lime cool-aid (used the cool-aid powder to clean the grill too!) for what seemed like months at a time. The horror, the horror..

[cryofan]

14. heheh..."bug juice" also used to clean electrical equipment

the beverage was also used for maintenance....

[BurtWorm]

15. Aren't they commentaries on the To-rats?

:crazy:

[MaineDem]

16. This is really creepy

Just this afternoon my husband was telling me about the mid-rats he used to get at Roosevelt Roads. He said that base had the best food in the Navy.

Now to read about mid-rats here...what a coincidence. :)