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Originally Posted by The_Snail

"Panini?"

Courtesy of Tahiti Airlines on the way back from the Falklands. Thermonuclearic on the outside, frozen on the inside. Yummy.

panini! lucky cow I'd have killed for panini when staring with hate at the contents of my little white box in 89.

Originally Posted by Grumblegrunt

panini! lucky cow I'd have killed for panini when staring with hate at the contents of my little white box in 89.

I think I'd rather have swapped for that. Corned beef and tomato soggy sandwiches, a packet of those cheese things that suck all of the moisture out of your body, a Panda Pop and an orange would have been preferable to something that had "Best Before Nov 2017" on it.

At least you could smoke on the flights back then and do the mad dash to the bar when they refuelled at Ascension.

In Denmark, I had a Boff Med Blod Log one night when I fell out of a club, have me the squirts for nigh on a week. That and McDonalds, the smell of their places makes me dry heave

Tabuk - the Lockheed mess ran by Egyptians. Seems the reefer truck out of Jeddah had failed a few hours out and delivered to the compound two days later. The mess manager declared it good and refroze everything. Cue the whole SOC and Control Tower / Comms crews down with the squitters (a lovely Tacan term, so descriptive). The only walking survivor was Twizzle, a diesel weasel who was pickled in Siddiqi. The rest of us were shepherded at gun point by the National Guard onto the buses and forced back to work. Not a high point in my career ...

Originally Posted by bokkatankie

It is pleasing, and yet nothing at all to do with the thread, to find another aficionado of the works of Mr. O'Rourke, I have his entire collection in my library.

Me too. I did find some of the later collections seemed to contain reworked versions of earlier articles while Modern Manners and The Bachelor Home Companion can only be taken in small doses these days, but Holidays in Hell is one of the books I cannot be without.

Originally Posted by smartascarrots

Chicken sashimi in Japan. How the Hell they don't have salmonella epidemics, I'll never know.

Had raw chicken gizzards on a stick in Tokyo with no ill effects. Suppose it's because they're used to preparing it so know it's safe! Latest trend in That London is pork so rare it's practically tartare, & I don't mean it's been cured or preserved in any way!

Originally Posted by smartascarrots

P.S. What is she doing with her tits? Not complaining, just asking.

Who knows - who cares? As someone else has already said, it's quite Mesmerising.

I'm trying to lip-read in case that's her phone number she reciting.

All you well travelled youngsters and No one mentions Pla Raah, thailands own edible bio nuclear upto 100 year old dried and reconstituted fish, alive with liver flukes and a bouquet to turn stomaches of everyone within 2 mile radius, I still get reminded by the occasional ancient Op Crown survivor , how I had to serve bully beef and snake beans and hard tack 3 times aday(only had hardtack for 7 days)for 22days,because the roads were washed out, aussies airdropped us half a ton of minging mutton shoulders, served it up roasted till it was was fat free, wheel barrowed into the dining room let the animals help themselves!!the real delicacy came later, it took 59 &54 sqn nearly 6 months to build a swimming pool we had been using it for 8 weeks , because of water shortage, we ended up drinking the swimming pool Water!!

Originally Posted by adouglasmhor

Natto, which is fermenteed soya beans covered in slimey snotty fungus. Balut a boiled duck egg with an embryo in it. Pidan a chinese egg fermeted to a green slime.

Mrs Gaijin has natto for breakfast at least once a week - its a guaranteed way for her to get me to fuck off to work early