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does anyone remember the pilchards in the 10 man rat packs ?

We had to dispose of them once , never found out why , we had to remove them from all the rat packs in fact


I often wonder if someone actually ate some and had the skitters

Seems unlikely though, after compo for a week

When I was in forces many of the ration packs were date stamped in the early 1940's which made them about 15 years old by the time they got to us.

Pilchards loved em, I was gunner on a squadron leaders tank in BATUS and he would'nt let me smoke in the tank so I used to eat pilchard sarny's all day after a couple of days of the tank smelling like a hamburg whores skivvies he gave in and let me smoke. I missed my pilchards though. We once had a squadron on Soltau that got a dodgy batch of margarine and nearly all the lads ended up with food poisoning.

Sticky Blue wrote:They last years... the oldest out of date one I ever had was best before 1987, I ate it in 1995!!

and look how sticky ended up

Remember the soya sossys ?

I had to do brekky once ( only once) and couldnt remember which sossys were soya and which were meat

We had a couple of veggies on that exercise who couldnt tell the difference either

RAF Luqa Guard, 10 man rat packs, red salmon, god only knows why there was never any in the rat packs when i was, "CHEF"

Don't recall pilchards but do remember small tins of well boned kippers in the packs we had in Borneo; made a bloody nonsense of the no-cooking patrols as you could smell the things half a mile away as soon as the tin was opened.


Barry