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Old 2nd Jul 2011, 20:43
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When I went through Cranwell I was told that baked beans weren't an officers vegetable......
You obviously took something in even if you missed the lesson on apostrophes.

Now I am surprised that BEagle didn't mention why beans are not an officers' vegetable, or rather why aircrew should not eat beans before flight.
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Old 2nd Jul 2011, 20:51
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I see no apostrophic abuse in the usage of weren't. It has been an acceptable form of 'were not' since 1691, I understand.

An officers' vegetable, however, is incorrect. Either An Officer's vegetable or Officers' vegetables.

Take first.....
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Unless of course, a bunch of chaps all agreed to prepare the land, acquire the seed and grow a single carrot - then surely that would be an officers' vegetable?

I raise you my third rate public skool against your grammar and remind you that I was so good I did Cranners twice!!

Apostrophe-shamostrophe!
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"I was told that baked beans weren't an officers vegetable"


thats because its wrong for vegetables to eat vegetables
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Morrisons own (yellow label) brand by a country mile, close second Aldis sausage & beans but be ready for mucho gasso
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What is considered an Officer's vegetable?

Nothing green, obviously, as this is the way Nature warns us of its foul and rancid taste.
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Incidentally, it would be considered unthinkable for a "submarine breakfast" not to include baked beans!
Just think, as you breathe in, where that recirculated air had been 5 minutes ago
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Any beans are acceptable as long as they are consumed with square sausages out of a fire blackened mess tin.
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Baked beans and sausage - same taste as Heinz and well cheap.
You tried their 80p bags of crinkle crisps, awesome, peas are good at 15p too.
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Heinz by a mile. Where I live I have to pay 3.5 GBP for 4 small pots of British Heinz beans, a small price to pay for the luxury of a Sunday morning beans on toast.
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Pleasantly surprised by the taste of these. Rather nice, I thought.
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For me it has to be Morrisons, cheap as chips and just as nice (plus it's a proper Yorkshire supermarket ).

Any grammar or spelling mistakes are attributed to the fact I'm from Yorkshire.
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I find that they work best just before the Henlow refresher.
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Old 3rd Jul 2011, 08:15
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MODBeans are produced in the United States as this reduces production costs by 30%, and then they are shipped to the UK and opened, after which the sauce is drained and replaced with a British specification sauce. They are then shipped back to the US for repackaging, after which they are delivered to the consumer in the UK. .
We had MoD beans at Machrihanish once during an exercise. The exercise was a deployment of RNlAF Atlantic for a nudge nudge wink wink, and we were boltholing there.

During their Det there was a daily delivery from Campbeltown with the Baked Bean tanker leading the Tinned Tomato truck and the sausage cart. As soon as their Det was finished we reverted to proper full Jock breakfasts.
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One has just enjoyed a breakfast of bacon and Branston 'Bloomin' Big Baked Beans'. Dash of wooster sauce, very yummy. Being a former SNCO I, of course, had no doubts about whether or not, the beans were the right food for one!
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What ever the beans, they deserve the old Compo sausage to go with them......... Yummy
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Took the words right out of my...!

old Compo sausage
Were they the skinless ones that one would dunk in a glass of light beer and horrify the onlookers?
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You tried their 80p bags of crinkle crisps, awesome, peas are good at 15p too.
The mushy peas are well nice. I shall try the crinkle crisps on my next grand day out.
May I be so bold as to recommend their mackerel fillets in the finest tomato sauce.
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