Originally Posted by TMOliver

Wait! Thanksgiving aboard a deployed CVN means turkey dinners for 5000 or so..., several hundred in the wardroom and the remaining thousands down below on the mess deck. Quantity and ability are not in question, but quality and presentation may suffer. After all, served in a compartmented metal tray on the messdeck, the gravy inevitably douses to pumpkin pie

Including, also inevitably, a few days before, steaming along side of a "Reefer' (refrigerated stores ship), for the transfer of slings loaded of turkeys (fortunately dead, plucked and frozen) across 50-100' of open water. For old salts, "brineing" the turkey occurs when a sling dips into a passing wave.