Best The Royal Citadel in Plymouth during beat up in !967

2nd Nee Soon Garrison when The Aussies and Kiwis moved in 1970 with 16 oz meat rations what steaks, just had to get the Aussie cooks to cook eggs well as they liked theirs snotty.

3rd whenever in ops location N I or Norway exercises with Unit chefs

Worst SEME Bordon

Originally Posted by Bouillabaisse

Worst - the transit "hotel" Brize Norton - supper almost inedible then the usual 0diddly squat wake up and the crabs couldn't be bothered to supply a chef so cornflakes and a plastic croissant. What's that to give a man about to go on a 7-8 hour flight?

Oh God - the horrors of Gateway House. As I wrote in an email home after my first experience of the place:

For those unacquainted with Brize, the “Rough Guide” to RAF establishments comments along these lines: “You will arrive at the comfortable departure lounge, where you will be able to buy a wide range of Pot Noodles and drinks from vending machines, but not get any change to operate said machines. Just when you have given up seeing a human being again an RAF Movements Corporal will stick his head around a door and ask, ‘alright, mate’.” The guide goes on to state: “You will be accommodated at the Gateway House, a motel-style transit hotel. Lavishly equipped with echoing corridors and extra hard-banging doors, your night will be enlivened by parties of servicemen taking full advantage of partaking in end of leave celebrations until the early hours, and those telephoning their loved ones outside your room until 3am”. On food the guide is no less complementary: “A wide range of airline meals, lovingly kept under heat lamps until dry and elegantly presented on sectioned, floppy plastic trays is available until 10pm, again offered without any apparent intervention from the human hand. Bring sandwiches”. In all seriousness the bar does a good range of beer and of course whiskey (the latter unavailable in theatre) and breakfast was an excellent fry-up.

I swear there must be some kind of Crabs-only luxury mess somewhere in the building where edible scoff is available...

Best: BATUS Canada, sgts mess 4 Armd Wksp REME. Antwerp Barracks Sennelager good. (Junior Ranks). Senior Ranks (See below) Worst: Sennelager RCT/RAMC Sgts Mess. South Cerney also gopping!!!!

Originally Posted by AlienFTM

Originally Posted by hillhater

1 KOSB in Osnatraz in 1083ish Quebec Bks????.When the Orderly Sgt came around saying,Any complaints,you did not dare say YES.They were animals.Kosbeeee could eat anything,with or without KFS.Eat there for first week till I got paid and never darkened their door again.Great schnelly out of main gates turn left 200m near railway crossing.How do I still remember that.

Do you mean 1983? Mercer / Imphal Barracks? If so, I think you'll find it was up to 1983 cos when I arrived at 12 Armd Wksp in the annex to Mercer in November 1982, 1 Green Howards were on the next ferry behind me to take over as Osnabruck's resident infantry battalion on top of the hi

ll about the level crossing.

Probably 1983.Would not have gone back there even if it was 100 years later

I remember having breakfast in some big shed at Harwich after an overnight crossing from the Hook. Probably the worst I've ever had in a 'military dining facility'.

Originally Posted by KnightsofRowallan

Best - Masserine Bks Antrim

Worst - Glamoc.

Ah, Glamoc; I was there in late 95/early 96 and the roof of the building it was set up in was unsafe so we had to eat whilst wearing our helmets.

I think it belonged to the QRH who were making the best of a bad job.

Best: ballymena

worst: barrybuddon

1975 'ish and just having recently completed P Coy, RAF Abingdon and now climbing off a 4 Tonner at RAF Lyneham at 3.00 am.
' Go to to the cookhouse , lads ' or Get yersens fookin feeeeed! was shouted somewhere and in we went.
Stroll on ...this was a different world
A cook asked me " how do you want your steak done !" FFS I initially thought he was taking the piss then he said "How many eggs?"................
and he meant it !!
The steak was ......devine!! OK devine is relative...just had 5 months of Depot Para.......... but as I walked out to the C130 I thought Christ how the other half live.
Rear foot, rear foot , rear foot , OOOF thank fcuk

I had to visit visit RAF Abingdon in the late 60s to see some of my guys go though the parachute phase of P Coy.No one complained about the food.However in the officers mess(canteen style) ,we were warned not to wear OGs,smocks etc,as one had to 'dress' for lunch.We went in en masse in our working clothes,and no one uttered a word.We then trapped the few WAAF officers,who were lookers,compounding thew fury of the crabs.Happy days!

best..hms clyde....the chefs know how to throw together a decent turkey and ham pie

worst..has to be leconfield