Just to lighten this thread a little...... When I was posted from training to the home of the Whispering Giant in the year of our lord nineteen hundred and seventy, the food in the JRM at Bzn was beyond compare and could not be bettered on other RAF stations or local hostelries.
Breakfast was the standard fair, but plates of local sausage, bacon, eggs, fresh mushrooms, tomatoes etc all served hot and tasty, with accompanying tea and toast, was a great way to start the day.
Lunchtime offered a full dinner with a choice of various roasts, steak bar, omelette bar, a giant salad bar consisting of cold meats, fresh salmon, carved to your liking and invariably a cold fresh cooked turkey again carved to your preference. I had never seen such a quantity and quality of food in my life.
Tea/evening meal was chips with something (I love chips) but the choice was massive.
Ironically, the Britannia shift system was 3 days (12 hour shift), 3 nights (12 hour shift), 6 days off. Those people who went away from the block on the 6 day standdown always complained that they were paying for food that they neither wanted or were there to eat.
The WO Catering came over to the Line Hut on several occasions, to explain that our absence allowed him to reallocate our ration money to purchase fresh orange juice, instead of the powdered variety, fresh fruit and fresh cakes and sundries to accompany the evening meal. Indeed, his rationale was that we still had good value for our money.
My, my, history has proved he knew his stuff.
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