Originally Posted by
Melchett01
Not sure how true, but did remember hearing a tale a good few years back of a Tonka crew being given Pot Noodles or something similar when on a long transit. Probably apocryphal, but not surprising if it did happen - I remember doing a long trip on a Herc only to find the butty boxes covered in yoghurt which seemed to have exploded at altitude.
Melchett .. Don't know about Tonka's .. but on the Herc you probably refer to the (in)famous "columbo pack" ... in flight rations out of said area were "banned" as the catering establishment was decreed "not to standard" .. so all transit flights carried a large box of long life items ... biscuits/sealed pate/sealed cheese (rubber)/crisps/chocolate etc etc on which to survive. When the Falklands happened, and the catering out of Dakar was declared "unfit" the "columbo pack" re-emerged. IIRC A senior officer complained about a lack of "hot" food, and the next trip the packs included pot noodles - equally tastless but hot ..
although some co-pilots seemed to love them ... no accounting for taste ...
