32gbpadfal
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Oct 29, 2009 11:36:35 GMT
Post by 32gbpadfal on Oct 29, 2009 11:36:35 GMT
I was wondering if any of you can remember the compo of the 50's. Up to now all I can find is the Tea was loose and used to be thrown straight into the BV with the sugar and and cans of condensed milk, left to stew for a while and then cups dipped in and passed around the crew.
Margarine and biscuits brown were also there.
Some main meals that I have found were Mutton Scotch style, which does sound revolting and Irish stew but they were not to be liked that much.
Was coffee issued I presume not as it was fairly expensive in those days?
I know that when on ops you also got Cigs and chocolate issued was the chocolate in the metal tins with 4 bars per tin and as hard as bullets. Remember eating it as a kid and did the cigs issued come in 20's or 10's?
Also found some of the cigs issued were woodbine, navy cut, services and darts.
Any help would be much appriciated
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Oct 29, 2009 23:19:30 GMT
Post by texas on Oct 29, 2009 23:19:30 GMT
I remember that tea was not made in the BV, it was made by boiling the water in the Benghazi then brewed it in the Dixie, still using the sugar and the evaporated milk. some where I have a photo of just this procedure on Detmold Station platform while waiting for the flats to move. In the compo there where tins of egg and bacon, bacon on its own (very salty) oatmeal blocks that you could make into porridge, Brummy Northwood tried it hated it then stuck it on to the bazooka plate it took us ages to chisel it off. There was bars of soap, toilet paper (for small arses) mostly used for writing messages on. I quite liked the treacle pudding (fried of course) and the ginger pud, I shall sign off now as nostalgia is getting to me.
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Oct 30, 2009 2:48:08 GMT
Post by greentanky on Oct 30, 2009 2:48:08 GMT
My favourite was the apple pudding and I also liked the chicken supreme.On a night move our driver put some tins against the exhaust to be eaten later but found out when he opened them in the dark that two of them were marge-like yellow water.
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Oct 30, 2009 22:18:36 GMT
Post by texas on Oct 30, 2009 22:18:36 GMT
Just thought I would say I liked the apple PD as well but the chicken supreme never came in until the 60's and that was one of my favorites.
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Oct 31, 2009 10:31:46 GMT
Post by alfredo on Oct 31, 2009 10:31:46 GMT
No one has mentioned the rich cake,and in my humble opinion the compo sausages were the best thing ever.As an after thought,hard tack biscuits with cheese processed and apricot jam took some beating. ;D
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