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Kitchen and Cheese Story

Cold Bay Air Force Station, AK

The kitchen was located just to the left of the dining area as one walked into the mess hall. A small room where a bear broke into the garbage cans was to the right of the wall in this photo. Once, when I was talking to one of the cooks, I mentioned that I missed having cheese for a snack every now and then. We could purchase snacks in the BX, but the snacks did not include cheese. Well, the cook said he could "sneak" me some cheese from the kitchen if I wanted. He told me that he would wrap some cheese in foil and leave it for me on one of these tables to be picked up later at a designated time. When I came down from my room that night, I found a round, foil-wrapped package the size of a loaf of bread. I looked around, and that was the only foil-wrapped package I could see. So, I took it back to my room. When I opened it up, I discovered a can. First of all, I had never seen cheese in a can before. Secondly, It contained the largest chunk of cheese that I had ever seen! I still remember thinking about how the cooks were so accustomed to working with huge amounts of food that my friend in the kitchen gave me what he considered a small amount. Ha! Anyway, since the Operations Officer had told me once that he also missed having cheese for a snack, I happily shared the chunk. Our pieces of that cheese were so big that we both ate from those cuts for several days.

Yashica 635 TLR,80mm,120 print

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