Err, no, it’s not.
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Are you saying that only men would be prepared to eat brown/beige slop, because I’m thinking if I were sufficiently hungry I’d definitely give it a try.
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Traditions do change. That brown slop is just unnecessary if they have a proper kitchen, it doesn’t bring any benefit to the army me thinks.
I have no idea what that comment is even supposed to mean.
Probably this? Snarky.
It actually wasn’t as bad as it looked according to our son but I’d certainly need to be hungry to even want to give it a try.
He’s not a fussy eater especially if he’s hungry which is lucky really but he’s still lost almost 9kg since he started.
Apparently Kloten is the absolute worst in terms of food. The food budget is different depending in location and it’s not clear how the budget is determined but they have 27chf per day per recruit in Bremgarten and only 9 chf per recruit per day in Kloten.
Having said that they clearly pushed the boat out for the open day on Saturday as the food wasn’t actually too bad, best thing they’ve had since he’s been there according to our son.
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Veeery hungry…I would seriously consider fasting. It can’t be the same thing every day…oder?
Oh no, they get different unappetising meals every day.
Sometimes they look worse than others and the brown slop one was particularly bad but none of them are actually that great.
He reckons the cervelas stew was the best thing they’ve had so far, I guess the Swiss Germans can’t go far wrong with cervelas.
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Probably through the generous application of this stuff
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This is really difficult to believe. But here we go:
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I guess it’s the idea of the men training and preparing for the event of war and all the women in the thread complaining that the food isn’t tasty enough 
Thats pretty much the idea, it’s not meant to be some sort of gourmet buffet for the soldiers to graze on.
No it’s not “the idea”. It’s an RS in Switzerland, not the Ukraine frontline. Of course they could provide adequate rations of reasonable meals. Her son has lost 9kg so far.
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There is a huge area between a gourmet buffet and this… if you serve your country you can at least expect to get some proper food? We´re not in Russia…
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I’m sure why everyone is so surprised.
It doesn’t look any different from some of the slop they sell at “restaurants” in some ski resorts.
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It reminds me of an interview I watched with a British prisoner who complained about how dire prison food was in the 90s. One day he’d had enough and claimed to be a practicing Muslim who could only eat halal meat. They had to order him in food especially, and since he was the only one there would always be plenty of it.
Anyway, one day he comes down to breakfast and the officer congratulates him on the beginning of Ramadan… a 30 day, dawn-to-dusk fast 
You do realise they’re not prisoners in a prison though? What’s the point in feeding them horrible food? As BM has described that food it wasn’t a one off event. You can skip one dinner or one breakfast i.e. “fast” but then what? Go “mushroom hunting”?
It was my son and all his fellow recruits complaining about it and they are definitely not women.
There isn’t enough food and what there is isn’t very good.
They’re very active all day long and need a decent meal. Losing 9kg in 10 weeks is a bit much in my opinion.
He wasn’t expecting it to be gourmet food especially given that it’s in the German speaking part but he really wasn’t expecting it to be as bad as it is. Friends stationed in other places have much better food than he does.
In the beginning they thought it was because they were all new to the job and needed time to get used to it but it hasn’t really improved much although they do manage to not run out before the end of service these days which is an improvement on the first couple of weeks.
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Reminds me of the Woody Allen joke about the two Jewish women complaining about a restaurant.
Woman A: “The food here is terrible.”
Woman B: “Yes, and such small portions.”
There’s 4 3* Michelin restaurants in Switzerland and only 1 is in the French speaking part, the other 3 are in the German part. There’s only 1 restaurant in Switzerland mentioned in the top 100 restaurants in the world and its in the German speaking part at No 72. If its about food, Zurich wins hands down as the gourmet/foodie place in Switzerland
The dreadful army food is not a yardstick for the quality of the local food culture
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Michelin Restaurants do not generally reflect local food culture.
Although possibly in parts of Spain they do.
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Number of Michelin restaurants and number of world renowned restaurants do speak about the general level of food culture better than a subjective “Geneva is better for food than Zurich”.
The number of world renowned places in the German speaking part vs the French is overwhelmingly on favor of the German part. Geneva, for example, has no 3 star Michelin restaurant, while Basel, for example, has one.