1,400 pounds of lard!
You need it to fry-up all those spuds!
2 hundredweight of prunes = 224 pounds if assuming the British 'long' rather than the American 'short' (based on the cartoon seeming British).
Guess the Admiralty doesn't want any issues with anyone clogging the plumbing while the ship is underway.
But where is the Saltpetre?
Where is the Bromide to keep their sphincters from twitching in nervous anticipation of all those lonely randy British seaman
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Extra prunes, I fear!
Quote from: bob48 on November 27, 2015, 04:50:37 PM
Extra prunes, I fear!
How was the cooking back then, Bob?
..the prunes were an experience that overshadowed all else.
I would think as the elder statesman on board back then you would get the best meals, Bawb.
Ah!
He was training the kits on cooking mulligan stew in the coal shovels.
Quote from: Gusington on November 28, 2015, 10:01:17 PM
I would think as the elder statesman on board back then...
Hence the prunes.
Cheeky.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-much-food-took-feed-172400242.html
And for a comparison of a capitol ship in the Pacific War.