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Baked beans and bacon and fried bread dripping with grease at 7 am
And then having to clean the trough afterwards
Just had to think of that

It was 'crug', surely, not "crab"?!!!

Charlie s wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:12 pm Baked beans and bacon and fried bread dripping with grease at 7 am
And then having to clean the trough afterwards
Just had to think of that

I am pleased to report that I have just enjoyed a proper fat boys' breakfast of sausage, bacon, fried bread (x2) and baked beans, also at 0700. Armed forces food has got worse and worse since I first joined in 1980 but I am pleased to say that breakfast is as good as ever even though my waistline means I can only have it once a week nowadays.

It was 'crug', surely, not "crab"?!!

Definitely 'crab' in the late 1970s.

About 20 years ago the CH website mentioned 'croissants' as part of the breakfast. Ye Gods, that sounds like progress (well, until tested and tasted, perhaps not).

I couldn't abide the so-called "toast" served at breakfast in the early 1970s.
It was pre-toasted and then kept warm in the large "Hostess" trolleys that were dotted around Dining Hall.
But the trouble was that the trolleys were always full of steam, so what you got was soggy toast to put your flab and muck on.
Yuk!

Crug in my time (left in 77), never heard crab.

dsm wrote: Wed Oct 30, 2024 4:59 am Crug in my time (left in 77), never heard crab.

accent (and language)
Probably regional . When I joined with a mixed Belfast / Devonian accent and vocabulary I certainly couldn't understand the Lunnun pronunciation. Tharbe funny folks up thar.

MrEd wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2024 7:09 pm

It was 'crug', surely, not "crab"?!!

Definitely 'crab' in the late 1970s.

About 20 years ago the CH website mentioned 'croissants' as part of the breakfast. Ye Gods, that sounds like progress (well, until tested and tasted, perhaps not).

I think it was a bit house dependent. Traditionally it was certainly Crug so maybe Crab was some sort of pidgin picked up by those in lesser houses than Leigh Hunt or Coleridge, the A sides at least. In LHA and Coleridge A it was always Crug but I do know that it had fallen out of use elsewhere. I don't miss the steamed toast but as far as I know Crug was unsteamed or untoasted bread as served slightly stale in stainless steel trays.