Pineapple Wars!?!

So working in the galley...

The galley is a crazy place to work for example we like to serve lots of fresh fruit! Last week we received a huge shipment of pineapples in and wanted to serve them for dinner, but when we serve fruit we want to have enough for everyone on the ship. This means that large amounts of pineapple, papaya, banana, soursop, watermelon and passion fruit must be set out. Otherwise the people who come early to dinner get all the fruit and the late comers don't get any, which isn't fair.

Back to the pineapple, we had just gotten a large shipment of pineapple in and needed it cut for dinner. Will and Nash both work cold side with me, and we started cutting pineapple. Soon Nash began struggling, the pineapple was not cooperating for him at all and it was stressing him out. A couple minutes later he launches into a story about how he shouldn't have to cut pineapple after what he had to endure in the Pineapple War of '08. Will and I curious as what had actually happened and a tad bemused began to question him. Nash said that the pineapples led a revolution and took him captive as an example for the rest of his state. When we asked more about this war, Nash responded that he was to traumatized to speak more about it. He also thought this was good enough reason to be exempt from cutting pineapple. Sadly this tale did nothing to sway the decision that he had to cut pineapple, instead it became mandatory counselling so he could over come this tragic experience. By the end day he had "defeated" his fears and was on the road to recovery.

The galley can be a very stressful place to work, because strangely people want to eat dinner every night and on time. On a typical day we are 10 steps behind rushing to get everything done, but some days we are 30 steps behind scrambling to get things done. Somehow not matter if our shipment arrived  2 hours late, the salad didn't turn out, we ran out of mozzarella cheese for the pizzas, or the ovens don't work we manage to get the meal out. So moments like the one above break up the day but working in the galley is a very rewarding job.