Originally Posted by
Paying Guest
What goes around comes around. Forty years ago at Rheindahlen the de rigueur starter aid for the Portadown Way Wednesday evening Weber gathering was a catering size baked bean can, courtesy of the mess kitchen, with both ends cut out. Excellent VFM even if it had to be replaced every 4 or 5 years.
A fellow inmate!
Our first tour was in number 8, the second in the up-market number 13.
With a brake parachute for cover in the middle.
I remember the bean tin, black as sin.
And the third leg dropping off Webers.
And a certain Gp Capt specialising in eating an egg, shell and all.
Cheese bratties that were a health hazard when poked with a fork.
And Christmas with the fire engine.