Just another testimate to the courage of the Armed Forces. Would Rum be an acceptable replacement for the Bourbon in sufficent quantites?Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
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Just another testimate to the courage of the Armed Forces. Would Rum be an acceptable replacement for the Bourbon in sufficent quantites?Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
We did issue rum for cold weather ops. It USED to be issued. I can't say about now. Over proof used to be issue, it's almost unpalatable. Then they local purchased it which usually yielded Capt Morgan's black...(never spiced...what's wrong with those guys)and it wasn't too bad.
Where were we?? Oh yes, I guess rum would do, the problem is that after a few, we'd forget about eating the rations...
Oh, I thought that was the point.Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
British rum issue was known as ,"plussers" for some reason. Got an issue of this in Germany in the early 1970s. It was still in stores after the Canadian move out of the British to the US zone. I have heard that this beverage, served without breakfast, played a role in encouraging the troops to charge out of their trenches in WW1. The modern replacement, as I recall, was Capt Morgans 181 Proof. Being something like 90% alcohol was less likely to freeze on winter deployments, apparently also popular in Alaska..
It was pretty harsh stuff...
Pusser's is a brand name of rum produced by Pussers Ltd, on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. Pusser is Royal Navy slang for a purser, a ship's supply officer, now called a Logistics Officer, in the Royal Navy; thus the word became naval slang for "one hundred per cent Service", as in "pusser's issue", meaning anything that is supplied by the Royal Navy, such as a "pusser's grip", the name given to a canvas bag that sailors may use instead of a suitcase (it folds flat and is thus easy to stow on board ship). Pusser's Rum is sometimes known as Nelson's blood, in honor of Horatio Nelson, one of the greatest Royal Navy commanders in history.
When I was young...we had a Great War vet that would appear in the mess for Nov 11th. He would start out his stories with "I had a company of Green Howards in the Great War..." His drink of choice was "Nelson's Blood", which was a mixture of milk, rum and something that escapes me...But that may just have been his own mixture...
Making me thirsty. Not. The rum sounds good but with milk? You grow them tough in the great white north.Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
He was British...no, I'd rather a bit of Coke or something like that myself...
A small tot on its own, washed down with a cold beer, I used to have few when I drank with an old RN signaller many years ago, sadly no longer with us but always remembered when I have a tot.