I was just thinking about the phrase ''God provides the food and the devil provides the cooks!!'' as I understand is sometimes quoted on board ship. I remember some really good meals provided during the times I was able to accompany my father at sea. The only downside was 'Brown Windsor Soup' but home made bread was fantastic. Just wondered if anyone else had any galley gastronomie memories good or bad !
Food Glorious Food.....!!
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French but food was ok
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That's when I discovered cheese and marmalade sandwiches
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mince and tatty Brown the chief steward comes to mind.
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Me and next-door neighbor John Sheridan were on about 71/72 got beat up in pub called the honky tonk in Workington woke up on the stony beach with nothing
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Fray Bentos pies not appalling. Not so of the puddings.
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What's Ed China leaving Wheeler Dealers got to do with the price of fish?
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Perhaps the answer to the question posted many years ago about why ships flour had a different taste, was that it had been pre-treated by the tiny little feet of the ships cockroaches foraging on the weavels in the year old flour (Eat)
My wife can actually smell if a cockroach has been anywhere near food and throws it away - comes of being brought up in Taiwan - did you ever wonder why the locals in any country never get ill eating the food?
Cockroaches used to live on the freezer door heated seals and make trips in to the freezer to do their shopping.
On one ship I asked the Chief Steward (was it One-egg Williams?) about the cockys. "There are no Cockroaches on this ship" With that one crawled up the bar bulkhead. Splat!! he killed it "well there aren't any now" he said with a perfectly straight face.
My wife can actually smell if a cockroach has been anywhere near food and throws it away - comes of being brought up in Taiwan - did you ever wonder why the locals in any country never get ill eating the food?
Cockroaches used to live on the freezer door heated seals and make trips in to the freezer to do their shopping.
On one ship I asked the Chief Steward (was it One-egg Williams?) about the cockys. "There are no Cockroaches on this ship" With that one crawled up the bar bulkhead. Splat!! he killed it "well there aren't any now" he said with a perfectly straight face.
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Well you needed some shortening on the winch cylinder before making a good chapatti.
(Bentley's figured in my London blow-out as they do unseafood as well so I can entertain my family and friends who weirdly like seafood while I have a decent steak).
(Bentley's figured in my London blow-out as they do unseafood as well so I can entertain my family and friends who weirdly like seafood while I have a decent steak).
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It must have impressed your guests, as they dined on their Trout en Papillote and Sole Veronique, to have Mine-Host savage half a bullock at the table.
Unseafood sounds very Lewis Carroll, did Alice dine with you?
Unseafood sounds very Lewis Carroll, did Alice dine with you?
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Well, three of the ladies (two family, one of the friends) had lobster. Evidently 7 (was to have been 9) is too much for their normal booking and I had to reserve 'an event'. I have never been an event before. With fizz it came out at a little over GBP 110 a head - can't be bad. I made to add a tip to the bill but was advised "I wouldn't bother, it will just disappear", extraordinary.
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An Event is a function that everyone hopes will degenerate into a piss-up before the evening is through.
With three Ladies, a spot of lobster and a drop of fizz things look promising.
With three Ladies, a spot of lobster and a drop of fizz things look promising.
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