USN (stateside for 2 yrs and all over the Pacific for the second two) and don't recall any bad grub ever. Mostly worked swing shifts if possible and one could request either dinner or breakfast items for his midnight meal.
Cooks always had the best duty schedules as it was often said one did not want to risk pissing off the cooks.
It was also said the sub crews got the absolute best of everything.
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We did - at least when I was in ('66-'69). My favorite shift was the 4-8 morning when on 'below-decks' duty.. I 'd cruise by the galley a grab a bowl, fill it with breakfast sausage and go about my check routines..
Tied up at the (say) USS Sperry at the piers in Point Loma, many times we'd have fried trout, with eggs etc for breakfast.... Deep-fried shrimp and potatoes at the evening meals and anyone that wanted anything else was welcome fix their own between meals as long as they cleaned up when done.. I remember a pallet of 2-gallon pails of ice cream and about 30 fresh pies arriving on the docks at times before noon. Man, that stuff got put into the sub and stored PRONTO.. LOL
