The worst was a "Burrito de Luxe" at the Base Cafe, Nellis prior to a Red Flag sortie in 1979 - don't remember much about the trip.

The best was a barracuda steak for dinner in the mess at Masirah in 1973, caught locally that afternoon.

Anyone remember the Friday Nepalese curry in HMS Tamar in Hong Kong ???

Best:

A mutton hangi overseen by a Fijian hooligan. It's technically a Maori cooking technique but I think it's used across the South Pacific. Ideal way to enjoy E and E instruction.

The meals in Lashkar Gah were excellent, given the conditions under which they were produced.

The worst: the steak that I had recently at RAF Odiham, so tough that it was genuinely inedible.

Worst - Any of the c**p ISS serve up under this abortion of a contract they call pay as you dine.

Best - the food in the mess at Leuchars when I first arrived when it was full RAF catering. You could literally ask for anything you liked.

Best: Compo sausages anywhere.

Worst: RAF Northolt OM. At dinner requested the lamb chops from the menu. Presented with a plate with the smallest chop ever seen (lamb must have been only hours old!) and that was it!!! From waiter "Oh, did you want a vegetable with it?"

All airmens messes,

Best:- Very close call between Kinloss and Brawdy, but Brawdy had a slight edge. Strangely enough the WO i/c the Kinloss mess had been the Flt Sgt in the mess at Brawdy when I was there. Unfortunately his name eludes me but he and his troops kept my stomach happy for many years.

Worst:- Fulton mess at Cosford. Huge queues, crap food and Discips lurking outside trying to ping people for anything they could.

Best... the flying rations on the E-3D provided by Waddington in-flight during the 1990s. Superb quality and very tasty!

Worst... the flying rations on the E-3D provided by the Italian caterers during the detachments to Aviano during the 1990s. (The contract was terminated after a hygene check following several complaints).

The BEST: Curry with 2/2GR at MPA/RAF Mount Pleasant

Nearly as good: Curry lunch every Wednesday at Worthy Down (well it had been and RAF, and RN, base in the past)

We seem to have missed RAF Akronelli !!

Always, a great feast whenever the chefs did the evening barbeque outside: squeaky cheese, shish, liver, and the pork chop hewn from a pig related to the woolley mamouth. And washed down with brandy sour and Keo (and that lovely Cypriot red "wine" kokkinelli). Loverly.

Best
After a long day setting up Kingsfield airstrip Army Captain dispatched his driver for a bag of egg banjoes for us.
On Detatchment to RAF Hendon the Airmens Mess was superb.
Worst
RAF Swinderby or Sennybridge Barracks, eat out of mess tins then wash in single sink full of grease and scum.

Worst - Officers' Mess White Waltham 1969-73 civvie catering....:yuk:

Best - Officers' Mess RAF Thorney Island 1970. Last of the 'old' RAF, with the most magnificent luncheon I've ever seen.

Closely followed by fillet steak at the Officers' Mess RAFU Goose Bay when we night stopped with the AOC. But this was before the 'duty free' saga.....:oh:

Could it be St Martin's Plain at Folkestone? Spent two days there, tried to eat the unidentified substance that was offered on arrival, then went to the nearby Tesco to get something edible for the rest of my stay.

Best

Bruggen. Omelette bar and barbecue and Q

Babies heads, Egg Banjos, compo sausage full English on exercise.

Brize, the sliced lamb kept in a hot like water tray

VC 10 Dulles burgers and meal served on return flight after engine change. Two pax (us) picked out own menu which was provided and even had beer.... Shhh :)


Worst

Odiham free fly eggs on ham salad, In fact most of the stuff they served, the only decent meal they tended to serve was the Christmas Dinner and most of that appeared to end up thrown in the direction of the Staish. Felt sorry for the cooks that had put a lot of time and effort into getting one meal a year right to see it thrown.
Though oddly enough stick them in a field kitchen and they were superb.

St Athans tea urn that was laced with laxative.


Worst ever I can remember a Steak and kidney pudding served with Chocolate sauce and a sponge cake served with Gravy, I kid you not, they couldn't even tell the difference themselves.

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After the food, that was served up in the Scampton airmen's mess in the late '50's, it was an amazing experience to eat in the mess at Goose Bay... three eggs on steak for breakfast, fresh milk and orange juice. I'd never seen so much excellent food on offer on the servery.

Best:
RAF Aldergrove OM
Yeovilton Wardroom Tuesday(?) curry lunch.

Winner: anything produced by MCSU at Prilep in Macedonia in 99. Showed what can be done even on a field kitchen if you take a bit of pride in your work.

Worst:

Swinderby OM
Henlow OM under PAYD

Winner: the cookhouse in the SH site in Basra 04. Unmitigated slop. Spaghetti, on the servery, in its cooking water, for an hour, "to keep it warm Sir". "Coronation chicken" rolls for lunch: one slice of processed chicken slice in a dry stale bun with a dollop of yellowy mayo. Delicious. The Pizza Hut van and the kebab hut at the main site did a roaring trade.

You mean the pre-digested frozen turds?

Absolutely agree with Bill4a (Post #11) the best was the Airman's Mess at West Camp, RAF Seletar - but only West Camp, the East Camp Mess didn't quite match-up. Still think of it often, an equivalent spread at a restaurant today would cost a fortune.

One of the best: square sausages (out of can), baked beans and bread toasted over a campfire on one of our regular bundo bashing trips out of RAF Sharjah in '66. Also breakfast in the mess at RAF Finningley after a night on QRA/ORP. The catering guys would really turn it on for us. They would serve us a FULL English breakfast in every meaning of the words, there was nothing lacking.

Best fish !
 

The best traditional British fish & chips I have ever eaten ( and I have amassed considerable data base ) was served at RAF Larrbruch by the field kitchen during one of the flying club rally's.

The quality of the fish was of the very finest order !