MAD BOOM,

Just have a dig around the old in-flight rolls at the back of the fridge in the Tea Bar, (you know the one under the really expensive coffee machine); some of them are less than a week old!

P.S. Eating’s cheating:ok:

I bet the soup course was a bitch.

Earhtenware? Porcelain, I would hope.

What a sorry state of affairs, though. :uhoh:

OHmiGod! Horrors....probably had to use paper serviettes too!

Now that just isn't the done thing Sir.....no not at all....just not on at all!

Why next time it might even be.....styrofoam and Sporks!

Serviettes? How very lower order - the proper word is 'napkin'!

Mad Boom, you poor, poor man. I'm outraged, having to use paper plates whilst the dishwashers bust. Maybe you should go directly to the SWO and demand he expells the airmen from thier mess so you can go there?

What next ... that blue stuff from Kimberly Clark out the hanger :ugh:

Nothing here about paper plates ... :E

RAF Waddington ISS

I'm sure either Mr Walsh or Mr Murphy would be very receptive to providing an explanation to a serving member of the Officers Mess ... :}

RAF Waddington Officers Mess

Mess tins, your own irons and mug and a filthy great, scalding plate wash bath in the entrance, worked in the App's mess at Locking in the '60s.

Looking at that ISS templated link, what I find a shame is that all of a sudden, mess members are exposed to prose lifted from a Wetherspoon menu. There is no sense of understanding the audience.. not even an attempt to fit in around them. Knowing the price of something such as tradition is one thing - understanding the value of it is another.

I like the Waddington mess, I'm sponsoring the Man V Food (I think!) Halloween nosh up next month. The military chef is getting stuck in with far more passion than I experienced on my plate at a supposed 4 star venue yesterday.

Anyway, talking of paper, what about the old toilet roll? As recently as the late 80s ("as recently?!!"), the issued highly glossed, slick article seemed to be treated with something that should be applied to the keel of ocean going vessels. NOTHING stuck to it.

Something caught my eye on the ISS web site, so I looked up "deli" in Wikipedia, the fount of all knowledge:

Then I looked again at the Waddington ISS site:

Ah, those delicacies, Walkers crisps and Pepsi!

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plate wash bath in the entrance

Exit surely?

Although my dad swore by bread as the best means of cleaning his irons and tin.

The huge bath of water for washing mug & irons at Cosford (1959-61) was frequently boiling hot, woe betide you if you dropped any of your irons in there as you'd get 3rd degree burns trying to extract them. And your pot mug was a prime target for malicious sods who would give it a smart tap with their knife thus shattering the said pot mug and forcing you to go plastic

Serviettes? How very lower order - the proper word is 'napkin'!

Quite right too! Please tell me that, someone, somewhere, still has access to a supply of "fluted cups for officers with fluted lips" .......;)

Jack

You might have a shortage of crockery at Waddington, but at least you don't have absolutely no bacon whatsoever for weekend brunch at Venning Barracks Officer's Mess in Donnington, as happened the weekend before last. Eventually, after much grumbling on our part, the chef gracelessly produced a burnt sausage baguette with a complementary sachet of tomato ketchup. Pathetic doesn't even cover it... I much, much prefer Cosford Officer's Mess, albeit the coffee machines in the ante room are out-of-order. :(

I should count yourself lucky that you've still got paper plates! At a punchy frontline Hampshire airbase there is currently no service in the O's mess for main meals at all. Rumour has it combined messing is in force for several (3 or 4) months....

Halton Apprentices ate off proper plates, but I suppose Locking was a bit out in the sticks :). Fond memories of the steaming Vats of water for Iron cleansing :ok:.

lm

Frontline.... All 3574 miles from it, Unless you are having trouble with the locals in North Warnborough, I cannot see how you can define it as erm frontline. :}

was it true that officers' chamberpots had handles, airmens' had not, on the basis that officers had to keep their thumbs dry?
We certainly had the handled variety at Nicosia 1961, my wife grew cress in it.

Only asking!

Ref Serviettes vs Napkins. I was always told it was, 'paper serviettes,' or napkins. Serviettes during the day, and napkins at any other time, or when you had guests...