
Cook Chatty Cathy wrote:
......and lo & behold there was tobacco churning away with that big old vat of Buttermilk!
I never took that oath either and your story reminds me of my early days in the Navy having mess duty very early in the morning after a long night of typical sailor behavior. Three of us are sitting around a huge vat cracking eggs in to it for the morning's scrambled eggs. It's bad enough when cigarette ash drops in, and occasionally a cigarette that was hanging loosely from hung over lips, or the already forming embryo, but this one morning the guy next to me suddenly empties his whole stomach from the night before in to the eggs. There was too many eggs to toss out, so we quickly swirled the mess into the eggs and kept our silence. :eek:
And that is one of my 'nicer' stories. Anybody that has been in the service knows.
For the rest of my Navy career I refused to eat scrambled eggs.