Goomba > wrote:

>George Shirley wrote:

>> At least once a week we had SOS (use your imagination), aka chipped
>> dried beef on toast, for breakfast in the Navy. That was about up to 48
>> years ago, they probably don't serve it anymore. The other oddity was
>> fried bologna, baked beans, and hard boiled eggs for breakfast. Only ran
>> into that on one ship I was on. Luckily young men will eat about
>> anything so it went over pretty good.

>It took their mind off the abstinence, I imagine?

I guess this wasn't the Royal Navy then...

S.