Anyone got hungry watching the steak-eating banquet?

Did anyone else feel hungry watching the movie at the beginning? There was an army awards banquet dinner after Captain Boyd (Guy Pearce) receives his award from the dour-faced general. The assembled officers sit down to dinner and begin ravenously cutting up and consuming their thick steak dinners. Each officer has what looks to be a 18-ounce steak, one-inch thick on his plate, with no potatoes and no vegetables. Someone does pass around a basket of bread. Every man digs in and starts hungrily chewing cut pieces of their steaks. All the steaks looked like it was cooked medium-rare. It looked terrific and tasty and everytime I see this scene it makes me want to eat a steak dinner.

Captain Boyd is held out to be a coward in the movie. But I didn't really interpret Boyd as a coward. If you notice, Boyd didn't run away in battle. The men in his unit were almost already wiped out and the rest were being overwhelmed by victorious Mexican soldiers. In Army tradition, Boyd would have gone down fighting to the death with the rest of his men. I prefer to think that when Boyd realized all was lost, he panicked and instead of choosing to die with everyone else, he laid down and pretended to be dead. The rest of the movie shows that Boyd may have been a very cautious man, like most of us. But his actions show that he was far from being a gutless coward. I don't think Boyd acted any differently than most of us would have in his position.