取材自20世纪40年代初到70年代的杂志广告图首先声明一下，海军版“原汁蔬菜炖羊肉”（Lamb fricassee）的主料确实是羊，然而我们上一章也提到了，羊肉本身问题太大，所以我个人建议用鸡肉，它的色泽口感和热月酱（thermidor sauce）是绝配。把鸡肉换成龙虾或基围虾也可以。至于fricassee怎么读就要看各地的口音了，而美国装逼犯会把它读成Fuh-ri(fre)-kah-see，但美国的一般人或会法语的人（比如我自己。前面两个特征我都满足）会读成Fuh-ri（fre）-ca-sae。重音在最后那个音节-sae。 Continue Reading
STEC Archives, Digital Document Division
May 1st, 1989
Correspondence no. 1014
Sender: Marblehead, Shipgirl
Recipient: Staff No. 4, Department of Historical Research, STEC Archives.
We have access to CIA stuff right? Did you look there?
Correspondence no. 1242
Time: XX:XX
Sender: Staff No. 4, Department of Historical Research, STEC Archives.
Recipient: Marblehead, Shipgirl
Ms. Marby,
Yes we did. The individual you’re researching is in our own archive records as Agent no. 1863. After said event he was rotated to a clerical position and performed his job dutifully though without additional note. His employment was terminated on April 15th, 1961 and Agent no. 1863 was subsequently institutionalized at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center. He passed away two days after.
Correspondence no. 1245
Time: XX:XX
Sender: Marblehead, Shipgirl
Recipient: Staff No. 4, Department of Historical Research, STEC Archives.
Not helpful. Again, I am looking for information pertaining to a top secret hearing carried out by the House Un-American Activities Committee. The hearing occurred in 1961 over suspected ties and/or communist sympathizers of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Agent no. 1863 was the sole source from a major intelligence agency since, well, LITERALLY nothing happened. But you know they wanted to make sure of that.
Correspondence no. 1356
Time: XX:XX
Sender: Staff No. 4, Department of Historical Research, STEC Archives.
Recipient: Marblehead, Shipgirl
Ms. Marby,
Do you mean the one involving Ms. Iowa? I’ve attached it here.
Correspondence no. 1358
Time: XX:XX
Sender: Marblehead, Shipgirl
Recipient: Staff No. 4, Department of Historical Research, STEC Archives.
YES! THANKS
Correspondence no. 1361
Time: XX:XX
Sender: Marblehead, Shipgirl
Recipient: Staff No. 4, Department of Historical Research, STEC Archives.
Wait, is this it?
Correspondence no. 1450
Time: XX:XX
Sender: Staff No. 4, Department of Historical Research, STEC Archives.
Recipient: Marblehead, Shipgirl
Ms. Marby,
Yes.
Correspondence no. 1455
Time: XX:XX
Sender: Marblehead, Shipgirl
Recipient: Staff No. 4, Department of Historical Research, STEC Archives.
… You know what I’m going to go get lunch now. Literally nothing. No secret funneling of government slush-funds, no global defense coordination initiative, no COMMUNIST ARCANO-TECH, not even a secret handshake.
They really did just talk about growing stuff for three hours and Khrushchev left with a small package of seeds as a sign of friendship. BORING.
Correspondence no. 29, 657
Time: XX:XX
Sender: Pennsy, Shipgirl
Recipient: Marblehead, Shipgirl
I seriously CANNOT understand you girls and your silly games. CANDY IS NOT RATIONED. IT’S LITERALLY SITTING THERE. IN JARS. AT EVERY CANTEEN AND CAFETERIA AND RESTAURANT. YOU EVEN HAVE IT IN YOUR OFFICE.
WHY BET.
I’m on archival duty this month and I only have four staff members. FOUR. Next time, bookworm, maybe think about GODDAMN ASKING SOMEONE. LIKE MAYBE ASK IOWA. THEN YOU WOULD REALIZE THAT AS PER USUAL CHESTER’S A DAMN TROLL AND YOU WERE DUMB ENOUGH TO BUY INTO IT.
This is St. Bernard’s approximation of ice cream. Looks pretty good. The article is here in Japanese, but I largely cobbled together from the Jefferson museum and the internet at large.
The source can be found here.
“If he had not tasted it before, Jefferson no doubt encountered ice cream during his time in France (1784-1789), and it was made and served in his kitchens for the rest of his life. Among the items filling the 86 crates of belongings that Jefferson had shipped back from France were “quatre moule a glasse” [four ice molds].”
What’s this got to do with the navy? Well, similarity of general methods. It’s general knowledge that ice cream was a coveted morale booster. There’s plenty of legends out there (most of which are true) involving destroyers picking up downed airmen from carriers and getting X gallons of ice cream for their efforts.
The thing is, navy ice cream during WW2 is a little different from what we’d expect. Taken from the Cookbook of the US Navy:
Ice Cream should be a “regular” on the Navy menu. In addition to being one of America’s favorite desserts, ice cream is nourishing and economical.
The following directions, if carefully observed, will be helpful in producing ice cream of good quality.
Keep the freezer, utensils used in measuring the ingredients, ice cream cans and all other equipment scrupulously clean and properly sterilized.
Weigh or measure all ingredients accurately to insure uniformity, proper texture and pleasing flavor in the finished product.
Follow directions carefully.
It is important that the correct “overrun” be reached before the batch is drawn off from the freezer. The “overrun” which refers to the increase in volume, obtained by whipping air into the mix during the freezing process, may vary from 80% to 100%. An “overrun” of 100% is most commonly used in commercial practice.
A simple way to determine “overrun” is as follows : Weigh 1 cupful of the original mix, deducting the weight of the cup. When it is determined that the proper “overrun” has been reached, weigh 1 cupful of the ice cream and again determine the net weight. If the weight of the ice cream is just 50% of the weight of the original mix, the proper “overrun” of 100% has been obtained. For example, if the cup of mix originally weighed 8 ounces, the sample taken just before the batch is drawn should weigh 4 ounces. Ice cream with too much “overrun” will melt rapidly and show many air bubbles in the melted product.
Keep the blades of the freezer sharp and properly adjusted since faulty adjustment allows a thin layer of cream to freeze along the inside wall of the freezer. This tends to insulate the batch from the refrigerant and lengthens the freezing time and decreases the “overrun.”
Store the ice cream in a hardening cabinet or room at 10° F. below 0° F.
When serving, have the dispensing cabinet at 6° F. Use a “rolling” motion with the scoop. Digging or pushing the scoop into the ice cream will compress it and reduce the number of servings per gallon.
The ice cream came in a dry powder mix. You’re supposed to add water to it at cold temperatures (so not freezing – the manual says about 40-70 degrees (Fahrenheit)) and then freeze it down. The machine’ll do the stirring work for you (otherwise you’d have to stir for a long time) and you just have to draw the ice cream out into a can.
“What happened to pictures from Boston?”
Zero lost his camera. We’re in the process of getting it back.
So in the meantime have a long-haired Tiny E. 🙂
As an aside, Sima did a pretty fun series of the Northampton girls from vol. 1. It’s a bit like Kaga-posting but with our girls. I also really like using these to make a point.
“I have a question about submarine girl riggings. In Pacific it seems many of the girls carry what looks like basically the submarines on their persons. Yet in other instances like Sculpin they literally ride on the torpedoes themselves. Why is this the case?”
Oh. This is a case of show and tell. I think I’ve been asked this before.
Just because a subgirl isn’t wearing her equipment doesn’t mean she doesn’t have it. In the same way, just because a subgirl is wearing her equipment doesn’t mean she can’t do anything without it.
One of these days I’ll show you how subgirls use their torpedoes. It’s not quite as you would imagine. The general gist of things is that they have several options, ranging from literally throwing them (think darts, where the torpedo then go to full size) to using their equipment to track, guide, and align the torpedo so it would go on course properly. We’ll have a Silent Service explaining how in real-life torpedo runs were made and we’ll show how this applies to the shipgirls themselves. (Handy for playing Silent Hunter, too)
As for Sculpin? Sculpin’s just derp enough to want to ride them at base. These are girls that can take tank shells to the face without so much as a scratch, so…
“ENGLISH VOL. 2 WHEN”
… I knew this one was coming. Soon. We’re still ironing out the details in our NA distribution network. Unlike Asia we have to build all of our infrastructure from the ground up, and at any rate you’ll see Silent Service and 2016 first beforehand.
“Will Anime still be around in Pacific?”
That answer your question?
“Which one’s your favorite chibi?”
I like them all. They all make me very happy because Sima’s got a unique talent with capturing expressions and faces.
Case in point, this one.
I do lurk around and read other creative works, you know? While I’m amused and entertained by how many others view Ari (some even using our art), she’ll always be a little klutzy and adorable in Pacific.
The Arizona is one of the most well-documented ships, in no small part thanks to the Arizona memorial. It is almost universally associated with tragedy due to in no small part the significant loss of life at Pearl Harbor.
Yet it is precisely that it is well-documented that I took Ari in a slightly different direction. By the time Pearl happened, the Arizona had been in service for nearly three decades. Some men that my family’s very well acquainted with served there in the early stages of their careers. The tales I found were many, but they can be summed up in one word: animated.
Dodging the deck’s watch (to sneak some beer below decks) to hastily tossing the day’s piracy overboard. Impromptu sessions of fun and horseplay. Shore leave (why am I not surprised that this was remembered well?). Flipping between generally slacking off (as again, one particular officer who went on to become CNO would tell) and suddenly try-harding (and winning) at both inspection and sports.
She’s awkward. Sometimes she doesn’t want to be handled at all. Other times she’s slow to start. Reading some of the folks who worked down in the engine room really hits this point home, and I’ve read enough recollections from people that served to grasp that this was perhaps a little more troublesome than the others.
But once she gets going she gets going, and she does it well. She’s good at what she does. Perhaps not the best, but definitely “above average” (though basically everyone thinks that of their ship xD).
I’ve said many times that Pacific isn’t really a miliotaku work at this point. We simply don’t view the shipgirls as pieces of equipment, and we intentionally avoid or minimize the extent of which physical “attributes” of the ship would mirror that of a girl. That stuff is easy. I could have Ari walk with a slight limp in her left leg due to one port screw consistently having troubles, for instance. Or make her farsighted since she had a tendency of overshooting her targets.
But what does that add to the story? Why is that interesting? Why should I communicate that to the reader as a character trait when I can have Ari say that as a bit of trivia?
We’re in this to make cute shipgirls, after all. Emphasis on the girl 🙂