First Responder Food Pyramid

How do Firefighters, paramedics, and EMTs have such incredible energy?!?! It's our diet!!!

[qwot]

“Will it fill me up? or Will it keep me up?”

So accurate it hurts almost as much as those gas station sandwiches.

[Homelyhippo]

I absolutely love this one. So true it hurts. I constantly get asked by partners “I thought you were a vegetarian? Why are you eating meat?” Because yes.. that’s why. Now please let me eat because there’s a 500 pound man that knows we have food and is feeling frisky enough to fall in between the toilet and his bathroom sink.

[corndog]

I feel personally attacked. And you can’t forget the “good job pizza” from management

[electricbayonet]

“I even watched a guy nebulize a soda one time”
Sometimes, you learn something so cursed it makes Dark Souls boss theme start playing in your head.

This is one of those times.

[kyusango]

laughing because its funny, but crying because its true.

[morpheus]

My high school has had 15 false fire alarms in the last 2 months. Fire department responded every time, and treated it as if it were real each and every time, at least from what I can tell by listening to fire dept. comms on my scanner.

I think a sketch showing the first-responder POV on "The 4th alarm call to the same place today?" would be hillarious.

[jonathanadkins]

We literally had this discussion today in dispatch, “Ice Cream makes those annoying calls better.”

[josefrobbins]

"Yum Yum Snacks", "Boo Boo Bus", "Boiled Chicken and Broccoli fart generating meal" Your Vernacular gets me every time.

[AB_Evans]

"Which none of us will live long enough to enjoy." I feel like he was talking to/about *_ALL_* of us. 😂😭🥴😔

[brandonwalker]

"A bag of chips and a candy bar is the only thing stopping you from living out your ultimate fantasy of finding out how flammable that boo-boo bus really is." - this broke me. Thank you for the quality content.

[tylerkalmick]

You know, it's amazing how much of this translates to the average Infantryman

[heathershockley]

My grandpa was a firefighter and he still eats this way, it's been over 20 years. He is now 78, bless him and his caffeine addiction 😂

[Chuckwagon]

In the 1970's and 80's my father was the firehouse cook. After long, cold calls in the winter he would heat soup as the guys were cleaning up afterwards. He said cooking for firemen was basically taking any recipe and multiplying the meat by 2 to 3 times. At one time the captain called him into the office and asked him to cook more healthy options because he was making the guys too fat.

[oldtanker]

Yep when I came on the Dept they said the average life expectancy after retirement was 5 years. My best friend made it 3 years. So far I have blown WAY past the stats I am already past 25 years after retirement.

[fyrman]

I made the mistake early in my career of trying to make a meal without meat. My officer noticed there was no meat and said to the DC, "we're going to the store as the rookie forgot the meat for the pasta dish🙄"... The DC agreed. The DC was simple man to please for food: meat, starch and a veg. Don't forget the ice cream.

[bittehiereinfugen]

Hey, we nurses have a pretty similar diet. You can only replace the point "meat, MORE meat" with "anything that can be prepared and gobbled up in less than 10 minutes" 😁

[jaap]

When you quit your job on EMS, you can always start as a diet coach. You are a great example for many!

[dragondancer]

This reminds me of how I was a total health nut…before I became a volunteer firefighter. It’s amazing how quickly after finishing Firefighter I that you realize you’re inhaling a cheeseburger off the rehab unit for BREAKFAST at a fire scene and that the idea doesn’t bother you one bit! And the ibuprofen-you need to pop that stuff ASAP after a working fire or major medic call or you’re gonna be moving like Igor with a hangover for days afterwards!

[justinfowler]

This diet is suspiciously similar to a army and railroader diet.

[kcm]

"Living out your ultimate fantasy of finding out how flammable that boo boo bus really is." I can't even tell you how hard I just laughed at that.