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Originally Posted by gloworm

Originally Posted by Mr_Cid

didn't they once upon a time have garibaldis?

To be honest most of it was acceptable, the rest was bearable at a stretch the only thing that i couldn't force myself to scoff down was the treacle doorstop.

Biscuits fruit wasn't it?

Beat me to that one Gren, fair play

and have we ever established just who made the compo sausages, the Westlers ones aren't as good or is the smell of stale wee and cabbage water getting in the way of my taste buds?

In the 1960's the Compo was mainly tinned .... Jam Roly Poly was like a lump of lead . Remember tubed Condensed Milk and Hard Tack biscuits which I think were made by a Dog Biscuit Company . There was another item in a tube ... could have been smoked cheese . I think the chocolate was bars of Tiffin ... again normally white with age .

Originally Posted by Gren

Originally Posted by Mr_Cid

didn't they once upon a time have garibaldis?

To be honest most of it was acceptable, the rest was bearable at a stretch the only thing that i couldn't force myself to scoff down was the treacle doorstop.

biscuits fruit for the use of.

If you remember the Biscuits Fruit, you must remember the Rolos Gren.

Stop drinking the Paraffin -- it's wrecking your brain cells! :P


Ohh... I've just remembered the manky peanuts and raisins in small cellophane packets. Shudder.

You can still buy tubes of Fussels condensed milk in Tesco's, job jobbed

............and another thing-I've never come across a better ground bait for river fishing than cheese possessed.

So there.

Originally Posted by skintboymike

PS; I neglected to mention in my opening post that the packs of noodles were also only contained in the ten man catering packs - we had so many of the fuckers on Telic 1 that even the chogies were telling us where to shove them.

Originally Posted by Gren

Rolos? never!

Fookin crow, not in my day.

When was your day? I remember getting these on one of my exercises in Phase 1 training, around October 1995. (Not seen since then though)

yah fuckin crow nig basterd

Originally Posted by DavetheApe

Originally Posted by Gren

Originally Posted by Mr_Cid

didn't they once upon a time have garibaldis?

To be honest most of it was acceptable, the rest was bearable at a stretch the only thing that i couldn't force myself to scoff down was the treacle doorstop.

biscuits fruit for the use of.

If you remember the Biscuits Fruit, you must remember the Rolos Gren.

Stop drinking the Paraffin -- it's wrecking your brain cells! :P


Ohh... I've just remembered the manky peanuts and raisins in small cellophane packets. Shudder.

I wish I was drinking, but sadly, the rolos just dont ring any bells with me.


Pate, now that does, as does the tubes of cheese (smoked or not) and also the yorkie bar thing, but deffo not rolos.



Christ, you lot will be saying screech was actually a refreshing drink next.