In the 70s at the height of the IRA putting bombs on flight IDs were introduced whena guardsvan captain showed his Barclay card to the security officer in the freight centre; captain reported security who checked the crew over or an other crew over next time, found most of the inflight catering and called in the bill who nicked them. Balpa got involved and a notice to crew appeared in queens stating that we could remove items specifically loaded for us. Twas a time when not only food, crockery and cutlery were served up at dinner parties or in extrémis one captain’s pub (chicken reheated from pax catering) but the damask curtains and cassette players were also being purloined - as to the alcohol that stopped iirc ex Banjul when the whole return bar had been taken off much to the chagrin of the jocks on their way home from a month or two on a dry oil rig,
A few sandwiches ..how the profession has deteriorated..we had three or four course hot meals.