Soups, etc.
Harry Lime,
"Mullagaveg" is a favourite of Mrs D. and me, and "Mullatomato" goes down well, too. (Did you ever have a "loadie" called Len Rapkin(s), by the way ?).......D.
Chugalug,
Ah, the Subsidiary Duty ! The word in my time was that, on your 1369, it mattered far less how you'd done your proper job, but how good you'd been as Officer i/c Pig Farm, or Fire Officer (one of mine - very interesting), or Officer i/c Officers' Mess Cat - that was what really counted.
"Publicans and Sinners". It was only in my later years, when I had metamorphosed into the dreaded VAT-man, that I realised how apt was the biblical association. We reckoned that we could "ring the bell" every third visit on average (average "ring" £5,000), but pubs we reckoned at every second one.
I came to specialise in pubs (perhaps my earlier experience had been a help). It was not that a publican was necessarily more apt to (shall we say) make mistakes in his VAT accounts, but that the nature of his business made him simply easier to catch.
Accordingly, on my first arrival in any new locality, I always checked all the local pubs at lunchtime to find where the Senior Citizens were dining. As that meant the best grub, I would let someone else "do" them, so that at least I should not be barred from that one, however many of the others might mingle a bit of powdered glass in my curry after an official visit......D.
Smujsmith,
I don't know the derivation of "honkers' stew" (are you going to eat that, or have you just eaten it ?), but I've sure seen a lot of it (mostly as a hospital patient).
Harry Lime will fill in the details, I'm sure.....D.
Geriaviator,
You had it good. No one ever gave me any Flight Rations - had to buy my own Mars Bars (and "Bounty Bars", which the Americans called "Peter Paul's Mounds").
Now we're standing by all agog for Coastal Command ! Bring it on !......D.
Keep the ball rolling,
Danny.