Photo: USARMYGERMANY.com. The
Kapaun Barracks Snack Bar. An essential feature of any Army base, this is
where you could buy hamburgers, french fries, and other kinds of food that
were not served in the mess hall. Often we went here for breakfast, not so
much because the mess hall food wasn't good (it usually was, especially the
breakfasts), but because German girls worked there. Plus the coffee was
better and there was a juke box. There was also a main Kaiserslautern Snack
Bar some distance away that was very huge, where Thursday night was Steak
Night, a very nice touch. They turned off the flourescent lights, put
tablecloths and candles on the tables, printed menus, and hired high school
kids as waiters. Oh, and speaking of mess halls, that reminds me of
something... In the Army all over the world, they like to serve a
traditional American Thanksgiving dinner, it's quite a big deal involving
truckloads of turkeys and all the rest. But at Kapaun Barracks in 1963 or
64, all of the turkeys disappeared at the last minute! So they served
C-Rations.
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