The troops are getting to enjoy lots of tastes and sights from home. The Burger King opened in Baghdad before the chow hall did. Also there are Pizza Hut and Subway, with Popeye's and Taco Bell being added next month:
"This generation of soldiers has grown up with name-brand fast food," [said Terry McCoy, food program manager for Iraq]. "It's the taste from home that they're missing. It not only gives them that little moment of comfort, I like to think it ... takes them back home for just the 15 minutes they are enjoying a Whopper."
Business at the Camp Liberty PX is booming. It's second in world sales only to Camp Kadena Air Base in Japan:
Spc. Rakesh Pal, 23, from Modesto, Calif., said he likes to walk through the PX when he has free time, even if doesn't intend to buy anything. "It reminds me of being back home at the mall," he said. "It doesn't feel like I'm in Iraq when I'm in the PX."
Come back safely to the Land of the Big PX. The burgers are on us.
Posted by floridacracker at February 8, 2005 10:34 AMBK, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and Subway. Aren't our troops suffering enough already?
Posted by: James at February 8, 2005 11:14 AMThe troops are getting to enjoy lots of tastes and sights from home.
Like mudwrestling!
I take it from the post below this one that Cracker did no lingerie mudwrestling during her stint?
Posted by: Bill from INDC at February 8, 2005 04:06 PMNo way. There was a roving duo of E-6s ("The Enforcers") that had no other function but to go around and bust our chops.
They were given the following names according to what they'd just jacked us up for:
The noise pollution police.
The light pollution police.
The do-rag police.
The fun police.
The pogie-bait police.
The laundry-water police.
And, oh yeah: I had to report to the 1st Sergeant's tent because I was carrying my helmet like a pocketbook.
There wasn't going to be any mud-wrestling going on.
Never go to war with an MI unit.
Posted by: Donnah at February 8, 2005 09:28 PMPogie bait?
Posted by: James at February 9, 2005 01:07 AMPogey bait is candy, or any kind of snack you eat in the field: Slim Jims, beef jerky, crackers, etc. I always assumed that pogeys must be vermin or insects, because we were always being told to keep the pogey bait out of our tents. Now I'm reading the term came from Marines giving their candy to Chinese prostitutes (pogeys).
Posted by: Donnah at February 9, 2005 09:20 AMDamn, I wish I'd known that earlier today. Maybe it'll come in handy tomorrow...
Posted by: James at February 9, 2005 08:55 PMHow much baiting does a prostitute need, really?
Posted by: Donnah at February 9, 2005 09:44 PMHo's need satisfaction too.
Posted by: James at February 10, 2005 01:49 PM