October 03, 2005

The Gitmo Cookbook (ugh)
posted by Argh 19 years ago
  • along with interesting facts about how American soldiers are working every day to treat prisoners humanely while still getting the information we need to protect ourselves. Er, exactly how useful is this information after four years?
  • Stew? Ew.
  • .."eat like a Gitmo detainee". I'm flabbergasted....don't know what to say. but Somehow the words "trade places" come to mind.
  • How come clicking on the cookbook brings up the site again?
  • Wonder if this cookbook might go over well at that Cambodian... place.
  • reminiscent of wilde's description of foxhunting.
  • all i can say is..... WTF?
  • Yeah, because -- you know, the contents of the menu have a direct relevance to whether or not torture goes on. The old saying is true: "No one who eats Baked Tandouri Chicken Breast has ever been tortured." Damn -- this is what Stalin did wrong. If only he'd served better food, the PR for the gulags would never have gotten so bad!
  • I ate breakfast at GITMO once and it was terrible.
  • U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, which covers 116 km² (approx. 45 mi²), is sometimes abbreviated as GTMO or "Gitmo". It was established in 1898, when the United States obtained control of Cuba from Spain at the end of the Spanish-American War, following the 1898 invasion of Guantanamo Bay. The U.S. government obtained a perpetual lease that began on February 23, 1903, from Tomás Estrada Palma, an American citizen, who became the first President of Cuba. I just thought that was interesting. From the wee kee
  • I don't know what Fish Amandine is, but it sounds French. So does Lyonnaise Rice. Even "tandouri" sounds like it could be some frenchified spelling of tandoori. What those prisoners really need is some freedom fries. And a lawyer.
  • Chef Alberto Gonzalez?
  • I lived in Gitmo for 4 years, back in junior high. The best food then was Jamaician beef patties from the Roach Coach.