In Riyadh during the Gulf war we had two Caterers who were tasked to reduce the cost of HOTAC and were known collectively as Melchett and Darling. They decreed that preflight meals would be taken at King Khaled International feeder where the airfield defence force dwelt in the stygian gloom of the subterranean offices. At the outbreak of hostilities the Saudi Air stewards and cooks mysteriously vanished but undeterred this stalwart team brought on the B team and posted that "A simple egg meal" would be provided. This consisted of a foot wide Saudi flatbread, slit open at a point on the circumference, into which a lightly fried egg was delivered with force by a surly Cpl cook. The trick was then to carefully bite into the flatbread without squirting egg all over your lap. Melchett and Darling wrote each other up so laudably that they got an OBE and MBE on returning to the U.K. It makes you proud to serve.