cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45766050
The US Navy has denied reports of food shortages on board two major vessels participating in the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
Yesterday USA Today reported crew aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli were not getting enough to eat.
One photo taken by a Marine showed a mostly empty lunch tray with a single scoop of shredded meat and one tortilla.
Is that a shoe sole?
Another meal was a ground meat patty, an unidentified piece of meat and some sliced carrots. (Supplied)
I want people to know that I have yet to find someone who has identified the “unidentified piece of meat” that looks like a deflated meat balloon.
Someone suggested its a steakum but if that’s the case its a weird mil-spec one because it doesn’t look like the pictures.
These seem totally inadequate. According to the Department of Agriculture, a complete meal is supposed to be “a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a corn tortilla and… one other thing”.
If it makes you feel better, Trump, Hegseth, and the billionaires are eating great.
Reminder to the crews of those ships: matresses are flammable.
IDK if it’s a “food shortage” but it’s a fresh food shortage. The obvious similarity between ingredients is they are things that can be frozen.
