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Cooks serve for birthday |
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A BIRTHDAY is a time to relax and celebrate – go out for dinner, perhaps – but 1 Bde cooks on Exercise Southern Reach celebrated their corps birthday by serving rather than being served. Two dozen cooks from 1 Bde served up more than 1400 meals for hard-working comrades and maintained a high work tempo to produce a staggering 112,377 meals over 80 days. Chief cook WO2 Robert Goodman said the number of meals and the sheer volume of food served, reinforced the old adage that an army marches on its stomach. “The 24 cooks and four stewards, drawn from all over 1 Bde, worked in 11-hour staggered shifts to produce the meals required,” he said. “We served up a range of tasty dishes from Asian stir-fries to roast dinners as good as mum makes, and a good selection of salads and such.” The volume of food consumed is also food for thought – more than 250 loaves of bread and 12 boxes of eggs were consumed every day. “We’re still trying to assess the volume of steak, mince, chicken and fish that was consumed,” WO2 Goodman said. “But, it was a lot.” RSM 5RAR WO1 Greg Burns said the quality of food was excellent and really put smiles back of the faces of tired diggers, who had toiled long and hard in the field. The workload of the cooks was such that they didn’t even have time to celebrate the catering corps’ birthday on March 12. |