Posted on Nov 9, 2014
Whats the weirdest thing you ate while in the military?
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I ate a rabbit heart at SERE. Never been stationed outside the US, so not much opportunity for more bizarre local foods...but I'd be happy to try any of them once.
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SGM Joel Cook
As an avid hunter I eat the hearts of all game I kill. I usually eat it first. At deer camp boiled or fried deer heart sandwich was like a rite of passage, one deer heart only has enough meat for about five sandwiches and there were about 15-20 hunters there on any given day. Ruffed grouse, snow shoe hare, cottontail rabbit, several species of dove, pheasant, Bob white and blue scaled quail, white tailed and mule deer, black bear, beaver, several species of ducks and geese are just a few types of heart I have eaten. I may have forgot a few.
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This doesn't count because I didn't eat it, but one of our patrols in Kabul brought back a salmon... pizza. Let me go over the sequence of events.
1. Where did they get the salmon from? There is no body of water nearby except for the Kabul River.
2. We had recently received instructions from Higher that anybody who accidentally tripped or fell in the Kabul River was to be isolated and checked out thoroughly by medical personnel. The river had so much algae and sewage in it that it literally looked like a green field... until you stepped in it by accident.
3. This pizza looks suspiciously like naan bread. I love naan bread, but naan bread is not pizza.
1. Where did they get the salmon from? There is no body of water nearby except for the Kabul River.
2. We had recently received instructions from Higher that anybody who accidentally tripped or fell in the Kabul River was to be isolated and checked out thoroughly by medical personnel. The river had so much algae and sewage in it that it literally looked like a green field... until you stepped in it by accident.
3. This pizza looks suspiciously like naan bread. I love naan bread, but naan bread is not pizza.
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I spent a lot of time in Asia, so I followed the old Army policy of "don't ask, don't tell". Some things you just don't want to know!
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