"middleton.walker" wrote in message
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"David (Normandy)" wrote in message
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Believe it or not I had snake (snake not steak)and kidney pie back in
the early 40's......served up by a Royal Navy chef in Columbo,
Ceylon....very tasty indeed. Suspect that was due to the chef's skill
and not the combo served. It tasted much better than rat meat....don't
laaugh at that, rat meat is better than starving.....H



I can just imagine the banter around the table waiting for the chef to
present his masterpieces.
Main course "Snake bake" or "Rodent in the hole"
for desert "Chocolate mouse" or "mice cream"
or do I smell a rat?

David

As to rats....a couple of my old buddies were p o w's in WW2 and bred rats
for extra protein to keep 'em alive......H




Not a lot I can say to that :-(

I knew a chap who was a p.o.w. in Burma. He became a milkman after the war.
On the surface he was a normal balanced and very quiet and likeable chap,
but when you got to know him the scars ran deep. He never got over the abuse
he and the others suffered. When visiting him and his wife with my parents
once in the 70's something came on the TV news about Japan and I still
remember the sheer hatred on his face and the venom with which he spoke at
their mention.

David.