In Praise of Fray Bentos

[Dirk]

Is that actually real?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

I do hope so!

 

[classic33]

I do hope so!

£6 plus postage from Firebox.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Is that actually real?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

It's like something you'd expect to see on a 1960's/70's Apollo mission in space,when gravity loss meant eating off a plate was impossible.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Not FB's but Hollands cheese and onion pies. They've been on offer at a local supermarket for about a month now. At 50p i've been dining on them quite a lot,along with their spud pies. When you stock up on stuff it tends to work its way to the back of the cupboard or the fridge. The other day i found an 8 days out of date cheese and onion pie. 'What could be wrong with it'? i thought,'seeing as it's been i the fridge it'll be ok'. I opened it to find the cheese was a kind of mottled black colour and the pastry had green and blue bacteria spores all over it! Needless to say i binned it. Damn,that was 50p i'd lost there!!

 

[classic33]

Not FB's but Hollands cheese and onion pies. They've been on offer at a local supermarket for about a month now. At 50p i've been dining on them quite a lot,along with their spud pies. When you stock up on stuff it tends to work its way to the back of the cupboard or the fridge. The other day i found an 8 days out of date cheese and onion pie. 'What could be wrong with it'? i thought,'seeing as it's been i the fridge it'll be ok'. I opened it to find the cheese was a kind of mottled black colour and the pastry had green and blue bacteria spores all over it! Needless to say i binned it. Damn,that was 50p i'd lost there!!

See, if you'd thought it through you'd have bought another, then taken that one back.

 

[Dirk]

See, if you'd thought it through you'd have bought another, then taken that one back.

Or bought two tinned FB pies which last forever in the larder.

 

[classic33]

Or bought two tinned FB pies which last forever in the larder.

He'll learn yet.

 

[Reynard]

It's like something you'd expect to see on a 1960's/70's Apollo mission in space,when gravity loss meant eating off a plate was impossible.

Naah.

NASA went for the freeze dried stuff in plastic pouches for the most part, to avoid crumbs floating around the capsule. You sucked the food out of a spout at the top of the packet.

The food on the Soviet space program was far less high tech and came in cans and screw top tubes.

It was only in 1975 on the joint Apollo-Soyuz mission that the Americans realised how basic the Soviet space program actually was.

 

[classic33]

Naah.

NASA went for the freeze dried stuff in plastic pouches for the most part, to avoid crumbs floating around the capsule. You sucked the food out of a spout at the top of the packet.

The food on the Soviet space program was far less high tech and came in cans and screw top tubes.

It was only in 1975 on the joint Apollo-Soyuz mission that the Americans realised how basic the Soviet space program actually was.

Any idea what brand of tin opener they were using?

 

[Accy cyclist]

Just seen all the different versions of FB pies on offer at the local Morrison's for one pound. They had Batchelor's marrowfat peas underneath the pies,presumably as a suggested accompaniment,at two tins for seventy pence. Just thought i'd mention it.

 

[classic33]

Which did you have to leave behind?

 

[AndyRM]

Is that actually real?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

No. Thank f*ck.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Which did you have to leave behind?

All of them. I bought a Holland's spud pie which i'm having now with some mushy peas.

 

[Reynard]

Any idea what brand of tin opener they were using?

No idea - but of course, whichever brand it was, it would have been approved by the Politburo prior to use.

 

[Accy cyclist]

No idea - but of course, whichever brand it was, it would have been approved by the Politburo prior to use.

I now have this image in my mind of a hammer and can opener flag,instead of a hammer and sickle.