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Show SOME CAKE BAKER Bill Dobson says this is a true story to the best of his knowledge and belief. Two army cooks were arguing as to the number of hot cakes each had cooked in one day. The one claime. he had cooked S000 in seventeen hours straight time. The other then made the following statement. "In a certain sector of the front, I was cooking hot cakes for a regi- i ment which for military reasons I j will not name. Our kitchen range was 928 feet wide and 1358 feet long. It required eighteen firemen to keep it hot. There were 619 cooks working in the kitchen and 700 K. P's to help them. We mashed potatoes with a pile driver and hauled out the dirty pans on flat cars. The mes3 sergeant rode up and down the kitchen on a motorcycle motor-cycle to give the orders. The bat- ! ter was mixed in twelve concrete mixers, and a steam shovel was used to take away the egg shells ev- I ery morning. We ground coffee with a 350 H. P. Liberty Motor. It required six men with bacon rinds strapped on their feet, skating across the griddle, to keep it greased. I fried all the cakes." |