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So long, sandwiches
We trust the 800 of you who claimed our sandwich recipe list by emailing ‘yum’ to Backbytes have stocked up on essential ingredients for the fillings: imagine having bread, and then realising you have no Angel Delight to put inside it. What a fool you would feel.
For 2004’s final word on sandwiches, we turn to IBM’s Neil Adamson, who used to fight in an Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment as a gunner on a Scorpion Combat Vehicle.
‘On exercise, the gunner’s sole role was to keep the commander and driver plied with coffee or tea (to keep them awake), and with food,’ he writes. ‘We lived on Composite Rations, known as Compo. Essentially, everything came out of a tin.’
The full breakfast would be tinned sausages, tinned bacon grill, tinned baked beans and fried bread, but often this took too long to prepare.
‘A quick and simple alternative: we were issued oatmeal blocks (tinned), about half an inch thick. Take one and apply a thick layer of processed margarine (out of a tin). From a tin of processed cheese, cut a slice and apply it to the buttered oatmeal block. From a tin of jam or marmalade, apply a thick layer. If you needed a sugar boost, it was entirely reasonable to add a spoonful of sugar.’
Delights like this could keep you up for four days or more at a time, Neil explains. That’s probably how long it took to chew the first mouthful.
All this talk of sandwiches leads me to toast. Indeed Toast by Post.
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Posted by :Rosie Banks | December 26, 2004 2:32 PM