Meal Trays for Middle and Steerage Passenger

[Father Fletch]

IMTU there is a steerage class of passenger. In G: T Far Trader there is a modularized SPA standardized shipping container (ISO 40’ equivalent) which will hold 4 passengers in steerage level quality.
Visualize a Japanese coffin hotel, stacked 4 in a grid at the aft of a container, with shared fresher, lounge and dining areas in the fore of the container.
My roomie and I were thinking of ways to benefit from human misery….I mean efficiently carry sophonts in ships not fitted for low berths….any way.
We came up with the Tray Design Meal for Traveller, suitable to feed 4 hungry sophonts of average size. These come in self heating or ship based heating packages and contains EVERYTHING you need to feed the sophonts.
• Plates
• Cutlery
• Frank’s Red Hot
• Ketchup
• Salt n’Peppa
• Cups
• Dehydrated Drink Mix (with all the vitamins and minerals a growing Marine needs to kill Sollies for Mommy! ®)
• Whatever else you need to use this and feed people

This page from the US Army shows a current model similar to what I am describing.

Some of the names of meals are herein listed:
Cleon's Clam Chowder
Geonee Spaghetti (Goulash)
Vegan Vegan Veggies
Imperial Enchiladas
Naasirka Nibbler
Fish & Jump Chips
Sylean Sandwich
Regency Bento
Barracks Bento
Navigator's Nosh Plate
Scout Stew (with Fleet Fries)
Meson Meal (with Plasma Punch)
Dropship Delight
Iridium Plate Special
Ihatei BBQ
Aslan Sampler Platter
X Boat Tender Vittles
Centaur Salad
Hiver Stew (in Spiral Bread Bowl® shaped like little Hivers!)
Solomani Continental Breakfast (Vegan Continental Breakfast during Rim War)
Sword World Pastries & Coffee
Vargr Curry
Baron's Breakfast
Count's Lunch
Emperor's Dinner
Shugilii Surprise
Shugilii Special
Shugilii Delight
Darrian Delight
Antimatter Antipasto
Hungry Vargr Roast
Bureaucrat's Brunch
Longbow Luncheon (Shhhh! What’s inside’s a secret!)
Capital Quiche
Glea Kimchi
Food Extruders Eggs Benedict (goes on for hollandaiiiiise)
Virushi Veal Oskar
Zhodani Zungenwurst & Zuccotto
Ithklur Tombo Ichimi
Displacement Tonnato
Jump Fuel Fagioli (Falafel)
Gurvin Gazpacho
Ziti Za'tachk
Lithkind Kuzu
Daurade Droyne

Buon Consumo!
好吃!
¡El Buen Comer!
Хорошая Еда!
Gutes Essen!
よい食べること!
Bon Manger !

 

[jasper]

the army meal looks like a throw away version of t rations. The t rations were prepacked heavy aluminum steam pans. You dump the whole tray into a pot or garbage can of boiling water. Cooked 30 minutes. Pull tray out and opened. here is where the trouble began. the tray was too awkward for regular table mounted can openers. The lip was too deep for hand held can opener. If had pull rings those would fail and you had to use pliers to pull the lid off.
The army chow looks good and does not need a cook except for portions sizing.

 

[Uncle Bob]

This is what I expect most starcrew and middle passengers eat. High passengers eat better, steerage eat worse (airline food).

BTW, 3rd class (steerage) passengers on a Cunard or Anchor liner in the eary 20th century ate the same food as 2nd class. Just in a less-nice dining room. According to my parents who crossed as children in the 1920s.

 

[Father Fletch]

Uncle Bob;
IMTU I have Middle and Steerage eat the same food, the setting is nicer for Middle, they have more personal reoom and they actually get served, instead of having in made available for them.
Middle share a fresher with their cabin mate, Steerage share a fresher with 3 other people. Middle get beds, while Steerage get Japanese style coffin hotel cubes.