Now while I was doing my basic training at Ft. Dix. We were told after that some of the meat was from horse. This was in 1974, and during this time the government was trying to get us to eat this meat. Now the Army when you went to the chow line. We had two line to choose from, one was the main line, the other was the short line. The difference was main dishes or short order like burgers and hot dogs. We also had a full salad bar.