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Default A modern-day miracle: Spam for six weeks straight in Afghanistan


"PLucas" > wrote in message
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| (Pinstripe Sniper) wrote in
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| >>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>
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| > LOL! Thanks for the lead.
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| Lucky they were Brits. They're used to shit food.
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| Aussie troops would have killed the cook and cooked him ;-P
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| 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.

Oh come on, whoever you are. Stop posting under Petey's name...this one
is particularly mean as anyone with Petey's experience in the military would
never answer a statement of valor with ridicule. Petey would have praised
the Welsh chef, not suggested his troops kill and eat him.

pavane