The Army Base
A group of senior citizen ladies were touring an
Army base, and part of the tour included a meal at the chow hall.
After Sergeant Ramsey showed the ladies the barracks, drill field,
exercise area, stockade, and the Colonel's and staff offices, it was
off to the mess hall.
After finishing the meal and
the Sergeant telling the ladies of the 15,000 meals served each day,
the 7,500 pounds of chicken, 150 pounds of butter, and 300 pounds of
sugar used each day in meal preparation and serving, it was off to the
kitchen area where the meals were prepared.
The
Sergeant wanted to impress the ladies, so he showed them all of the
stainless steel pots that held 200 pounds of mashed potatoes, the
freezers that were 50-feet long, and the dishwashers that had such hot
water that all germs would be killed.
Then the tour
was off to the baking area where cookies were being made. The cookies
were cut into shapes by an automated cookie-cutter, and then put on a
conveyor belt going into the oven. As the belt took the morsels toward
the oven, a big soldier who was shirtless would pick up each cookie,
press it to his belly-button, and then put it back on the conveyor
belt.
One of the ladies asked why he was doing that
procedure. To that, the Sergeant said that he was doing that to make
designs on the cookies.
Then the same lady asked,
"Isn't that awfully unsanitary?"
To that he
answered, "Lady, you should have been here yesterday when we were
making the donuts!"
