From: Douglas Greville (dgrev@iinet.net.au)
Date: Sun Jul 11 2004 - 22:43:12 PDT
John
> You can get a reasonable facsimile of Bully Beef at the supermarket today. It's
> called Corned Beef and is usually made in Argentina or Brazil. Armor or Libby's
> as I remember. It comes in a pyramidal can typically with a key on the side that
> is used to tear a metal strip off the can side.
I won't touch anything sourced from either of those 2 countries after
it came out just recently that the biggest Honey manufacturer in Oz
had been adulterating our honey with contaminated Argentinian honey.
Something about a known carcinogen that is in their honey, but not
in locally sourced honey.
> If you want canned ham, Plumrose is a better choice than Spam.
That is available out here. I would only eat it if desperate.
> Now I've never been on the front lines and ate out of my helmet or
> cooked anything by dropping it down the exhaust stack of an APC
> (BTW my wife thought that was absolutly hilarious!)so your milage
> may vary.
I know this could be done by British crews with Churchills and by
FV-434 (Fitters version of FV-432) crews. But all other vehicles
I have had a close look at have some sort of bar or grid welded
in the end of any upward facing exhaust pipe. As grenades tend to
be smaller than cans of Spam, it makes me think the "throw the
can in the exhaust pipe" story started with Churchills, could be
done with FV-434s but otherwise is a service myth? Comments?
Regards
Doug
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