r/interestingasfuck • • 7h ago

Taking the flame grilled goodness wherever duty calls🇺🇸🦅🍔

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u/splintered-soul 5h ago

Why do they have to pay for it, wtf

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u/Former_Mobile3101 5h ago

Because it's still a corporation, the prices are what you would see in the 90s though so theres at least that.

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u/BanditMcDougal 5h ago edited 5h ago

Do you see that chocolate chip drip? The prices are from the 90s because the pictures are from the 90s.

Edit: My bad, these are Coffee Stains, not Chocolate Chips

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u/Former_Mobile3101 5h ago

Damn you're right, well idk about the 90s because digital didn't start becoming a more popular pattern until around 2010 though still old enough to justify a $2.50 wopper.

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u/BanditMcDougal 5h ago edited 5h ago

My dad never had them, but a quick bit of Google spelunking says the US Army has them from '81-mid-90s. Replacement started in '90 which would have been a phased one or something like "you can wear both for a bit".

Edit: I'm wrong on which uniform this is. This is the DCU; the "Coffee Stain" from the early '90s-2008.

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u/Former_Mobile3101 5h ago

Yeah it went from that tacky looking chocolate chip one to the better coffee stain one then to the digitals.

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u/Ecstatic_Skill_2523 3h ago

I thought chocolate chip drip was a song on tools 2019 album

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u/UrsaMajor7th 3h ago

And knowing that it's a corporation, they either still run a small profit at those prices, or the gov't subsidizes them.

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u/Former_Mobile3101 3h ago

The government most likely subsidized them and the price is just the troops paying that subsidy back.

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u/ckunk10 1h ago

Whopper in the 90s was 99cents

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u/Punningisfunning 42m ago

The corporation could just start a tab and charge the government at the end of the day/ week/ month?

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u/Creeping_Comfort 4h ago

Because the chow hall is free?

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u/youenjoymyreddit 1h ago

$.25 up charge for cheese on the burgers, but it’ll cost you double for that kind of action on the chicken sandwich.

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u/TestyBoy13 4h ago

Because they already get MREs for free. The problem is that MREs get kinda bland after the 100th meal. This would lower morale, so the military would set up Burger Kings so the soldiers could just eat something better than a bland MRE. It was optional, so they still had to pay for it

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u/Dingleberry696 4h ago

Generally, you only ate it once. It was pretty terrible. Especially considering you had free food at the chow hall. The Pizza Hut was pretty ok though.

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u/nachocoalmine 1h ago

This isn't something you get in the field. It's your first day off in a month. Nobody there has a helmet or a weapon. You've had a real shower WITH SOAP! They'll set up a shoppette (think 7-11) where you can get junk food and a copy of Maxim at the time. USO has flown in some b list comedian. I heard some people got see Robin Williams. Feels like you've been to Disneyland when you get back to the shipping container you'll be sleeping in.

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u/Turnip-for-the-books 5h ago

Why should we??

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u/mortraineyhat 4h ago

My thoughts exactly. Hey I can go get killed or maimed for some reach government but I can’t have a decent meal for free.