Standby for broadcast, this is a broadcast from the apothecral story centre....
Remember the days when certain locations were on 'actuals'? There was a team from command accounts who travelled around the world checking that the 'rate' for locations was correct, and in this instance, checking the 'actuals' claimed by crews were reasonable.
Some bright spark had declared Gander as an 'actuals' location, heaven knows why. The command accounts team noted that it was costing them more than rates had been, so hotfooted it across the pond (with some glee no doubt).
Having carefully analysed the returns from the crews, they set off to the premier restaurant in town, as used by all crews evidenced by the receipts, called 'Reflections'....
Upon taking their appointed table, they ordered the same as all of the receipts - The Chateaubriand. The waitress asked 'You guys Air Force, right?', which they confirmed and she disappeared to the kitchen, only to return a few minutes later with 2 pitchers of Beer and a basket of chips (fries). The accountants were surprised by this and pointed out to the girl that this was not what they had ordered......whereupon she said 'Yeah, that's right, you guys ask for the chateaubriand, I bring beer and fries'.
Gander went back to rates shortly thereafter.....
End of broadcast!
I don't know of this story is true, or even factually correct but hey!