View Single Post
  #2 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
PLucas[_8_] PLucas[_8_] is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 189
Default A modern-day miracle: Spam for six weeks straight in Afghanistan

(Pinstripe Sniper) wrote in
:


>>And the blue-tinned wonder food continues to amaze:
>>"An Army chef whose supply helicopter was shot down
>>by the Taliban devised an ingenious menu to feed frontline
>>troops for six weeks on a diet of nothing but Spam."
>>--From the Daily Telegraph:
>><http://tinyurl.com/yzsmapy>


> LOL! Thanks for the lead.
>



Lucky they were Brits. They're used to shit food.

Aussie troops would have killed the cook and cooked him ;-P


As a matter of fact, Aussie tropps have been in that position on more than
one occasion over the years... they then go and 'source' local food.......
goats, sheep, cows.


--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke.