If you think your Rosh Hashanah feast will be enough to feed an army, the IDF — an actual army — wants you to know that it has you beat, by a few tons at least.
For the holiday next week, Israel’s hungry troopers will be dipping some 14 tons of apples into 2 tons of honey and washing it down with 7,500 bottles of grape juice, according to an army press release.
There will also be some 7 tons of pomegranates that some poor shmuck will have to try to get the seeds out of.
For the main course, soldiers will chow down on about 42 tons of chicken and turkey, 10 tons of roast beef and goulash, 10 tons of fish (no word if the head is included), 13 tons of everyone’s favorite — schntizel — and 12 tons of barbecue meats.
A baby wearing a beret on an IDF jeep on June 29, 2014. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
And they certainly won’t forget to round it out with some 32 tons of fruits and veggies.
Vegetarians will also have a few tons of whatever it is the army thinks they eat.
And for those soldiers lucky enough to get to spend the Jewish new year out guarding posts and carrying out operations, Chez IDF has them covered with 2,000 doggie bags of Rosh Hashanah combat rations.
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