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Fast Food In Iraq

Surprisingly, fast food in Iraq is available on most military bases. Civilians and military personnel can eat at Pizza Hut, McDonald's, Burger King, Subway, KFC, and Jim Bean Coffee, depending on what base you are on.

A few Middle Eastern bases have pastry and coffee shops and some sit-down restaurants as well. The bases in Kuwait have all of the above places but they serve no pork at any of them.

When I was at Camp Warhorse in Baqubah, there were not any types of quick food eateries. All of our food came from the Defac and the PX. I was there from January 2004 through July 2005. I do not know if they finally put in some of these American restaurants.

Imagine my surprise when I was sent to Al Asad and saw that they had yummy food shops from back home, just like they have on bases in Baghdad. I was excited!

This is what I call "Starbucks" wanna be. Notice they have one flavor.

coffee, afghanistan, kabul, camp gibson

This picture below is of our kitchen in Kabul. The guys tried hard but they were not very good cooks. Most of the food they got was already cooked so they were preheating it which meant it was left-overs to begin with. Then when they did get something good they would over cook it.

PEF Kitchen

Al Asad Airbase, has several great places to eat including Jim Bean Coffee, Pizza Hut, Burger King, and Subway. That has been the bright spot about having to live out past Baghdad in the boonies. It is a nice change from nothing up in Baqubah when it came to fast food in Iraq!

Good fast food in Iraq in the middle of a war zone is like a miracle to us. It is comforting to have American treats like burgers and fries or a pizza here with us. We are stuck on base so it is great to be able to eat somewhere besides the Defac (dining facility.)

TQ did not have any fast food in Iraq. The defac food there is great, but the troops and civilians need a break every once in a while. The commander there will not allow it. I was told by an AAFES employee that the reason the commander did not allow fast food was it caused apathy.

I would like to see the study on that one.

When I go home on R and R, the first place I like to hit is McDonald's. They have one at the Dubai Airport. It used to take some time to get your food but since they opened the new Dubai Terminal three, traffic has decreased.

One of the enjoyable things about going to Camp Speichier was getting some fast food. When you do not have something is when you start to find out how addicted you are.

At our base in Kabul we did not have any fast food. We would have to come with an excuse to go to Camp Phoenix to get something different to eat other than the stuff they fed us in our defac.

Camp Phoenix in Kabul had Sub-way, Pizza Hut and Dairy Queen. The first time I got to go they would not let me on the base. They said my id card was not any good. They were a new unit just arriving.

It was eleven months later when I got to go again. This time I did not even have to show my ID card. It was the same unit so I am sure they were focusing more on getting ready to go home.

This picture below is the PX at Camp Gibson. This PX is ran by a company from Switzerland called Supreme. A small store with a high price. The high prices were caused by transportation cost of shipping stuff from Europe to Pakistan and then to Kabul. Several months ago, Supreme had a convoy attacked. They lost 38 trucks.

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