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Have you ever eaten in a chow hall?

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Posted - July 29, 2019
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  • 6988
    Sure. When I was like 11, I went to 4-H camp on Kelley's Island.  The best thing was you could drink all the cold milk you wanted. I'm sure the cooks thought it odd that a kid would spend so much time JUST DRINKING MILK. All the others were finished and gone while I sat there with cold milk. You see, I was raised on 'powdered milk 'that you mixed water with. Not very tasty.  We were so poor in those days. 
      July 29, 2019 9:04 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    I ate meals at Salvation Army Harbor Light sometimes when I was broke.
      July 29, 2019 10:15 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    I have chowed down in many a hall.  Does eating while waiting in a hall constitute a chow hall, I wonder?  One is chowing down in a hall and all.

    I was in rehab and that had a huge mess hall type of dinning area where about 100 people gathered for meals.  

    I've been on retreats.  I've been at camp with the Blue Birds and Campfire Girls.  They had a mess hall I think.  


      July 29, 2019 11:13 PM MDT
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  • 44619
    Mess hall, chow hall. Same thing.
      July 30, 2019 7:01 AM MDT
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  • Mess hall at summer and winter camp.    Camp Massaweepie and Camp Cutler ....  BS Troop 182 of the Otetiana Council This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at July 30, 2019 7:02 AM MDT
      July 30, 2019 12:09 AM MDT
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  • 17596
    I've eaten in dining halls, Great Halls, banquet room, lunchrooms, refectories, but never a chow hall.  We called the place for taking meals the dining hall at all of the camps my kids and I went to during our childhoods and that is quite a list. This post was edited by Thriftymaid at July 30, 2019 7:02 AM MDT
      July 30, 2019 12:35 AM MDT
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  • 44619
    They're all chow halls.
      July 30, 2019 7:02 AM MDT
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  • 17596
    Oh.  I thought that must be a military word.
      July 30, 2019 11:25 PM MDT
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  • 44619
    After 20 years in the Navy, they're all chow halls to me.
      July 31, 2019 6:45 AM MDT
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  • 4624
    I'm not sure what a chow hall is.
    Maybe one of those places in Chinatown where tables are surrounded by umpteen stalls specialising in different Chinese cuisines?
    If so, I've eaten in outdoor versions in Kuala Lumpur and Malacca, and a modern indoor version in Sydney.

    And yes, I love Chinses vegetarian dishes.

    If I guessed wrong, please fill me in.
      July 30, 2019 3:05 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    LOL.  I am going to chime in because I am awake and no one else is here to answer.  I think a chow hall is like a "mess hall" which is patterned after an army term.  Where everyone eats together in a large assembly-type atmosphere.  
      July 30, 2019 3:07 AM MDT
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  • 4624
    Ah.
    In that case, I've eaten in a boarding school hall, in hospital cafeterias, in shopping mall food halls, large hotel dining rooms, at weddings in pavilions.
    But I've never eaten army food - nor been near army culture.

    If it doesn't need walls, I've eaten at several communal campsites - one of them, countless times.
      July 30, 2019 3:17 AM MDT
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  • 44619
    Thanks.
      July 30, 2019 7:04 AM MDT
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  • 5391
    When one is on a military base, that is where dining occurs. I served nine years. 
      July 30, 2019 4:26 AM MDT
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  • I have partaken of food and alcohol
    in a German style beer hall during Oktoberfest celebrations.
    I sang and stood on a table.  It was loud and crazy and fun.
    I didn't wear     Lederhosen but I certainly should have.  I would've looked so cute.
      July 30, 2019 4:53 AM MDT
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  • 16791
    Dozens of times, I was a Boy Scout.
      July 30, 2019 7:11 AM MDT
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  • 3523
    School  (including military school), cafeterias, and juvenile detention.
      July 30, 2019 1:21 PM MDT
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