catering corps

hi anyone served with the acc
1 corps tps workshop reme bielefeld mossbank backs 1980-1983
79 railway sqn jhqrheindahlen york restaurant 6 months
1 adsr verden 2nd half 1983- 1985
seme bordon 1985-1988
cvhq acc/catering support regt grantham
104 bn reme (v) loisburg bcks bordon

Used to turn up at 79 railway for annual camp with the amblance train group Was fun cooking on the kitchen diners at 120 kmh .All gone now.Had some good times though.Drunken nights in 79sqn bar

hammy

welcome

Have you found the discusion on the BAOR Ambulance trains? (Go to Regiments/Corps heading in this Forum, then Corps, then RCT)

You might be able to add a little to the history of the coaches especially the kitchen cars

Hi Hammy and welcome mate.

Bloody hell hammy! Your Profile took the page over! You need SPACES in locations Served [Done it for you]

Non the less - Wellcome

I noticed that Mike. LOL

thanks for the welcome

Nice to see another cook on here Hammy. Welcome.

Hell Hardrations I always thought you were a KOOK ..

Len (Ciphers)

Hardest course in the army I am told.












Nobody has ever passed it LoL

AND

They call themselve CHEFS

Chefs?? Andy Capp`s commando`s was a popular name

Aldershot Cement Company

or

Any Cant can Cook

comes to mind!

An empty tummy lost a lot of arguments with a cook.

A hot meal at the end of a crapy day made for a happy soldier.

ciphers wrote:

Hell Hardrations I always thought you were a KOOK ..

Len (Ciphers)

Funny you mention that Ciphers. It was pointed out to me last night.

Hardrations wrote:

An empty tummy lost a lot of arguments with a cook.

A hot meal at the end of a crapy day made for a happy soldier.

Despite comments to the contrary, my experience of British Army Cooks (ACC now RLC) has always been favourable. Be it in a Cookhouse, Mess (where I have had some really excellent Mess Dinners) or in the field on Compo.

Despite all the horror stories one hears about "Army cooks" I must say as a teenager whenever we attended some function (Dominion Day (back then -- long since renamed "Canada Day", which always sounds too corporate to me) barbeque or some anniversary or something), we were always treated to some superb food. Nothing fancy, just your basic meat and potatoes sort of fare, but delicious and well-prepared.

And it was clear the cooks took pride in their work and the presentation. You don't starve in the Army, that's for sure!

I found teh ACC cooks to be pretty good, some of the regimental ones however.

I think 'Regimental Cooks' ended in the early 60's Jim

the 15/19H had two untill 1969 at least[i think they were both near to enforced demob]maybe thats why they hung on so long.

That so Mike, in that case the cooks at Copthorne Bks in Shrewsbury were awful, couldn't cook a thing. They wore LI Beret's though?

'Regimental Cooks' were a thing of National Service Days really, so may be late 1960's maybe

ACC Chefs wore (and RLC still do) the headress of unit attached to, but with own badge.

You're probably right then Mike. Whatever, they were right slop jockeys.

The ACC cooks at AAS Harrogate were the pits..There was not much improvement when civilian caterers took over.At 7 Sigs they were good as were the crowd at Blandford.But for catering RAF Changi took a lot of beating, even with a couple of ACC cooks..

There are always good ones and bad ones in all trades in the Army. The trouble is the ACC were always on 'test'!

No one can remember the rubbish Clericals or Regimental role or maybe the Reme Fitters who bodged your transport.

When was the last time you Quality Controlled day in and out a persons work. Because thats what we do when eating our food!

'ang about, am I missing something here?

How come everybody's suddenly started slagging the ACC off ?