| 2024-04-28 | Doing mess hall duties, for short |
| 2023-06-14 | Working in a mess, for short |
| 2023-02-22 | Peeling potatoes, perhaps |
| 2022-07-20 | Doing some mess hall duty, in army lingo |
| 2020-09-27 | Doing some menial duty, in old army lingo |
| 2020-02-26 | Peeling potatoes as punishment, maybe |
| 2019-12-15 | Cleaning up the mess, for short? |
| 2017-11-06 | Like a G.I. cleaning up after a meal, maybe |
| 2015-06-16 | Working in the mess hall |
| 2015-05-24 | Stuck in a mess? |
| 2014-10-27 | Peeling potatoes in a mess hall, say |
| 2014-09-25 | Like some punished 1-Down |
| 2014-07-06 | Peeling potatoes, perhaps |
| 2014-02-04 | Cleaning a mess, maybe |
| 2013-10-17 | Like a private peeling potatoes |
| 2011-11-10 | Cleaning a mess in a mess, maybe |
| 2011-10-08 | Cleaning the mess? |
| 2011-08-18 | Peeling potatoes, perhaps |
| 2010-05-30 | Being punished, military-style |
| 2009-10-11 | Cleaning up a mess, maybe |
| 2009-04-21 | Peeling potatoes, stereotypically |
| 2009-02-24 | Preparing hash for G.I. Joe, say |
| 2007-05-10 | Where Beetle Bailey can often be found |
| 2006-09-28 | Like some punished G.I.'s |
| 2005-07-12 | Like a G.I. peeling spuds |
| 2005-03-02 | Wielding a peeler, maybe |
| 2003-11-25 | Making a mess in the army? |
| 2001-06-22 | Like a punished G.I., perhaps |
| 2000-08-06 | Working in a mess |
| 1999-06-20 | Doing kitchen duty, to a G.I. |