One Vegetable Not Allowed on Submarines

A few years ago, the U.S. Navy allowed me to do something I've dreamed of doing since I was in 1st grade:  To be aboard a submarine.  Not a submarine in a harbor at a dock, but a submarine out in the ocean.  My production crew and I flew up to Seattle, to Sub Base Banger.  And there, in the beautiful Pugent Sound, we boarded the USS Alaska, a Trident nuclear powered submarine.  While aboard, I had some of the best Chile and Cornbread on the face of the plant...or in the ocean.  We actually had lunch 300 feet below the ocean surface.  While aboard the USS Alaska, I learned a secret.  There is only one vegetable never allowed on a US nuclear powered Trident submarine.   The chef on the USS Alaska at that time, known as "Cookie," cooks for a crew of 65 from his kitchen called the "Kodiak Cafe."   Everything...and I do mean everything...is cooked from scratch.  For this mission, he has loaded about 72,000 pounds of dry and canned food, about 18,000 pounds of frozen food, 10,000 pounds of dairy, 2,000 pounds of potatoes, 600 pounds of onions, 300 pounds of lettuce, 300 pounds of tomatoes, and several hundred pounds of other fresh fruits and vegetables. But there is one produce item never allowed on submarines...Leeks!
YPM...Gettin' Fresh