The Lunchtime Review

A quick review of some of the meals we have eaten in the last week:

cotton candy....this was actually from the deployment ceremony....good, even if it was green apple

Cookie: Serving size: 1

Taste: Delicious

Texture: a little tough

Cristal Water: Amazing

Serving Size: Amazing

Taste: Amazing

Best bottled water in Afghanistan

Cabbage: Gross

Reportedly: "delicious....but not as good as my daddy's" (SPC BS)

Pepsi: Good

Serving Size: 300mL

Taste: Slightly more cola-ish than American Pepsi

Hardboiled Egg: Smushed

Serving Size: 2

Actual # Acquired: 1

# of Accidents occurring with Egg: 1

Maggi Juice: God's gift to man

Serving Size: however much sodium your heart can handle

Application: Hardboiled egg

Tastes: delicious

You: must try it at least once in your life

(similar to soy sauce, but completely different)

Cheeseburger and fries: Great

Serving Size: ^that^

Taste: Amazing.  Fries salted just right and crispy.  Burger juicy.

Last burger I ate in the US.

Stuff: possibly butter and margarine.

Taste: only had one, but was really good.

Water: Bonaqua, Coca Cola (If I remember right)

Source: A Soviet country

Taste: Good, crisp

Pasta, Bread, Mashed Taters, Mac n Cheese: =D

Pasta: Tasty

Mashed Taters: creamy, hot, perfectly seasoned

Bread: little dry, but good quality

Mac n Cheese: A-Mazing!

Mashed Taters and Mac n Cheese together: Orgasm of the mouth

Strawberry yogurt: Good

Consistency: different.  Idk what is different, but it is just different than US yogurt

Taste: sweet, tasty, but not the best I've ever had.

Chocolate swirl cheesecake: Frozen

Solution: eat cake with knife and spoon....DONT JUDGE ME!

Effect: folks got a good laugh

Secondary Effect: I was able to eat my cheesecake

Consistency: creamy, smooth

Taste: Amazingly delicious!

Rating: Cheesecake Factory level!

Water: don't remember which brand this was

Background: treated water

Effect: slight mineral taste

Decision: I'll drink it, some people were like "no, its gross"

Roast Beef (remnants seen on left of lower plate section): Good

Serving Size: 4oz

Texture: good

Taste: pretty good

Condiments added: HP sauce (kinda like A1)

Overall rating: pretty decent!

Cheese Ravioli (top left, gross looking): ehh

Texture: overcooked

Sauce: too strong

Taste: not really very good

Overall rating: The Ravioli on the plane was better

Mashed Taters (since its a different DFAC) with brown gravy: good

Texture: smooth, creamy

Taste: pretty good

Overall Rating: not as good as the ones above, but WAY better than the ones yesterday

Salad: lettuce, tomato, grated egg, croutons, Creamy Ranch

Taste: good, tomatoes were actually salad worthy today

Texture: crispy, crunchy :)

Rating: great!

Vanilla Softserved: good

Texture: good, was a little melty

Taste: a tad sweet (the theme for dairy here), but good vanilla taste

Vanilla pudding: GROSS

Texture: like gelatinous pudding 

Taste/Overall Rating: Was spit out by two people immediately

Pound Cake: mmmmm

Serving size: 1

My consumption: 1.5 (gave .5 to SPC BS for taste test)

Texture: moist

Taste: perfect blend of sugar and cinnamon, and the frosting was perfect, not overwhelming

Overall Rating: great!

Personal Pizza Half: sausage and pepperoni (pepperoni pictured above)

Taste: delicious

Reason for only small crust in the picture: Rest was eaten

Reason small crust left over: tad burnt