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I recall an anecdote about (I think) a Japanese admiral during WWII, who upon realising the US Navy had a ship dedicated to making ice cream, knew that they had lost the war.
I had to look this up. If numbers are down this would make great recruiting material.
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The power of not employing minimum-wage 16 year olds who don’t give a shit.
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I miss the honkey-tonks, Dairy Queens and Seven-Elevens…
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And the tactical BK had the Royale, instead of the standard crispy chicken. At least the ones I visited did. It was a nice break from the US version with proper chicken breast.
“Yeah I did two Tours to Afghanistan.”
“No I’m not in the military, I work at Burger king”
“I still see the Friday Night as the fryer broke in my nightmares…”
Sometimes, it’s preferable to shoot someone than be on the line.
Not just BK either. Taco Bell, McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, and Wendy’s all have contracts with the military, probably more.
Re: your username. Navy nuke?
Do they do air drops? That would be kinda cool.
No clue. I was a Navy nuke. Not my department
It’s a continuous test cycle of logistics. If you can get familiar fast food, XBoxes and other creature comforts to troops stationed half a world away from home, you can get much spicier fare over when circumstances demand.
That makes sense, actually, yeah. Logistics is a difficult task, take it from an OpenTTD player.
I ordered stuff from Amazon on deployment lol
Above all else the US defence has the best logi
The camo on the cab is doing a whole lot of heavy lifting for the rest of the truck.
The cab portion is military owned. The trailer portion is corporate owned.
What trailer? I can’t see a thing.
I just see a truck pulling America out of a plane.
Is that camo or is it just dirty as hell? I really can’t tell
Yes. It’s camo and dirty as hell.
You need a whole trailer for a microwave and fake ass “broiler”??
There are an abundance of sandwich shops with low overhead, simple ingredients, and decent quality. And America chose Burger King over all of them.
What a weird thing to bitch about in a thread celebrating the military’s ability to literally setup fast food for troops while skull fucking the OPs.
Which burger of theirs do you like most?
The one I had while waiting for the rotator flight to get me the fuck out of Afghanistan after a year of rations and dining facility fare. It may have been marginally better than BK at your local franchise, but, as the other poster is saying, the overall quality of the meal is not important in this particular context. It being a shitty fast food hamburger is its appeal.
I fully understand, but I’ve never been able to stomach fast food burgers. They taste like candied beef. The demographics of the army are such that most were likely raised on low-cost fast food, (which is funny considering how expensive fast food is nowadays) so they developed a taste for sugar sauce where I could not.
It’s my own personal complaint about style over substance and general tastes in the US. No one is wrong for their palate, but I am relentlessly judgmental about the pre-diabetic catastrophe of american food preferences.
Eh, Burger King is one of the less bad fast food burgers out there IMO. The Whopper and double cheeseburger are usually what I go for, and they don’t have the same fake taste as McDonald’s.
They’re definitely okay. I’d much rather go to a local burger shop or Five Guys, but Burger King is acceptable in a pinch. Carl’s Junior is better though.
Honestly, I just can’t tolerate any of the usual fast food places. I bake my own buns, grow my own veggies, and prepare my own mushroom/Anasazi patties when I get a hankering for a burger. There’s just too much sugar in everything
Gotta export those deer ankles they use for nuggets somewhere.
I’m gonna hazard a guess that, while local sandwich shops have quality, speed, and razor-thin margins down to an artform, a major fast food franchise is better suited to the task. The major reason being: logistics. A country-wide chain is probably at or close to the scale needed to qualify as a military contractor in this capacity. Nevermind the quality of the food, we’re talking about the ability to move a stupendous amount of calories around. Assuming the photo is of a mobile kitchen, well, that would be the easiest part of all this.
Meanwhile, something familiar from home is bound to be a boost to morale.
I understand, but pitching Burger King as a positive to me is like offering coppa to a vegan. I understand the qualities that make it popular but that hardly changes my revulsion.
The Pacific theater in World War II had entire ships dedicated to distributing ice cream.
I am unaware of any historical evidence they blasted “Turkey In The Straw” when approaching another ship. But we can dream.
Good giffin, Dayn
An army marches on its stomach
If you also increase moral at the same time, even better
entire ships dedicated to distributing ice cream.
Even before biden?
Hey, wake up and start the fryer, I think we landed.
Answer the following question Mr. Griffin: “Home of the _____?”
Peter: “H- Home of the Whopper…?”
Sneak King?
Hey WOPR, how about a nice game of chess?
They can’t effectively fight us if they have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diarrhea
The only problem is BK sprite literally, not figuratively, tastes like Lysol, in stark contrast to MCD’s “best sprite in the galaxy.”
