Back to Neptunes...
... last summer on our way back to the Chunnel we stayed overnight in a farmhouse B&B. There were 8 other guests there (of a similar demographic to madame and me).
Next morning over breakfast we all got chatting and one chap (deaf as a post) picked up that we were from Morayshire and said that he had spent a couple of weeks at a place called Kinloss for an exercise (flying Neptunes from the French Aeronavale) in the late 1950s.
He became very enthousiastic on finding a fellow (ex)maritime aviator but said that he and crew had had great difficulty with the food in both the Os and Sgts messes. "terrible" he claimed. Being enterprising chaps they set snares around the dispersal and caught a lot of rabbits. How to cook them?
As mentioned further up there was quite a good galley in the aircraft.
They decided to start an engine and get a genny on line to power the oven. It took rather a long time to cook the casserole and he reckoned they'd burnt maybe a thousand litres of Avgas.
"The most expensive rabbit stew in the history of French cuisine".
Small world the maritime aviators' world. But always amiable and interesting.
The Ancient Mariner