In Flight Rations-US Guide to Boxed Nasties

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Gainsey

Glad I won - what is the prize?

Best Lunch Box

Best lunch box I remember was that supplied from Embakasi in Kenya in Sept 1961.

With some sort of trouble brewing in the Gulf it was decided the Army brigade based in East Afrca would be transferred to Bahrain, a long Britannia flog with many hours - Embakasi - Khormaksar - Bahrain and then back again to do the same trip several times over to get the brigade to Bahrain.

Anyway on the first trip we left Embakasi, dished out the lunch boxes to the squaddies in the back and then heard mutterings of complaint. When asked what was wrong, the general consensus was that the 'jam' tasted salty. It turned out each lunch box contained a small pot of something to be spread on the rolls or biscuits or whatever and the contents were very salty.

Investigation quickly showed the pots were in fact pots of Caviar, real Caviar and not Lumpfish roe. This was not immediately obvious to the troops so we collected any unopened and unwanted pots and put them aside for later crew use.

Their loss was our gain!