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Airshow Food..?

23 Aug 2014 18:30 #1 by airfields man
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During the 80s, one of our ''Looking-forward to'' delights, at airshows was always the Burger Van :roll: in those days it never seemed too expensive, and they weren't that bad ! These days, at some of the major shows we have attended the price is totally extortionate, and the food quality is very poor indeed .... ! Many years ago I used to work in a Butchers shop ( Now owned by my next door neighbour ) making Sausages and Burgers, the scraps that went in to them... :sad:
So tomorrow we are all taking our own prepared grub. Believe me, it's only the smell of the fried onions that attract 8-)
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23 Aug 2014 19:00 #2 by Paul Francis
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Spelling! Paul Normally very good but today something a mist.
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23 Aug 2014 19:44 #3 by airfields man
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Spelling! Paul Normally very good but today something a mist.


Yes ! Very sorry sir :oops: must be the anticipation of tomorrow's AIRSHOW, plus this beer, Hic ! :-D
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23 Aug 2014 19:47 #4 by stevie
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Airshow food has only ever been nice at MILDENHALL!!!:-P:-P

However the bbq at Little Gransden comes a close second. Just a shame the que's always so long.

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23 Aug 2014 20:01 #5 by airfields man
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Airshow food has only ever been nice at MILDENHALL!!!:-P:-P

However the bbq at Little Gransden comes a close second. Just a shame the que's always so long.

Steve


Totally agree there Steve, The Mildenhall airshow food was always great ! Especially when it was given to you at the end of the show, ''Hey, you guys want some burgers, want some beer'' ? ''Sorry mate, got no money left'' ''Here take these, compliments of the U.S Air force''
Two BEEF burgers, and a can of Budweiser, superb !! :-D That was about 1985 ?
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23 Aug 2014 20:13 #6 by P Bellamy
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Ah, the smell of the squadrons' burger stalls wafting down the line at Alconbury, Heyford or Mildenhall airshows in the 1980s... :D
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23 Aug 2014 20:51 #7 by Peter Kirk
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Yes, the old oil drums at Mildenhall. Cheap as well! The hot dog vans at Biggin Hill always used to draw me and yes, it was the frying onions. You know what goes into them, you know they are not good for your digestion, you know you will pay the price later that evening (along with anyone within the danger radius) but.................. You gotta have one! What about the poly cups of brown liquid, heated to 250 degrees C? I'm sure we used to get china mugs in the late sixties early seventies?

As an aside if I think way back I only remember hot dogs being sold by street vendors, no burgers. At that time Wimpy Bars were the only take-aways that sold burgers that I recall and they were not fast but made on order. The waiting only added to the anticipation.

Another thing you don't see now is seafood vans. I used to love cockles in a tub. Prawns were not so common as they appeared to be called shrimps then. Winkles were a pain to eat and whelks were like fishy tasting rubber!
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23 Aug 2014 21:33 #8 by P Bellamy
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This weekend is the 21st anniversary of the last ever airshow at Alconbury!

Perhaps we ought to have a commemorative BBQ at the archive tomorrow. Wet burgers in that special USAF burger sauce/beer mix, naturally. ;)
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24 Aug 2014 07:43 #9 by Iain Taylor
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Yes, the old oil drums at Mildenhall. Cheap as well! The hot dog vans at Biggin Hill always used to draw me and yes, it was the frying onions. You know what goes into them, you know they are not good for your digestion, you know you will pay the price later that evening (along with anyone within the danger radius) but.................. You gotta have one! What about the poly cups of brown liquid, heated to 250 degrees C? I'm sure we used to get china mugs in the late sixties early seventies?

As an aside if I think way back I only remember hot dogs being sold by street vendors, no burgers. At that time Wimpy Bars were the only take-aways that sold burgers that I recall and they were not fast but made on order. The waiting only added to the anticipation.

Another thing you don't see now is seafood vans. I used to love cockles in a tub. Prawns were not so common as they appeared to be called shrimps then. Winkles were a pain to eat and whelks were like fishy tasting rubber!


China mugs for tea were still in use at Barton and Woodford airshows until the 80's. We still had real food too - black pudding van at Woodford was always good (flat cap and whippet were optional by the time I started to go to airshows in the late 60s).

Seafood - still get it round here Peter. Still hanging in around Murkyside but quite a while since I've seen a Kershaws chap with his basket of seafood in a pub locally (that said, I haven't really been in a local pub at night for about seven years).

American bases definitely the best for burgers/hotdogs but ONLY when supplied by the base staff (one of the worst things to happen to RIAT was the commercialisation of the arrivals/departures days and the loss of the oil drums!). Cheap...and cheaper still if you paid in dollars. For me the biggest plus was REAL Mountain Dew (there is no decent mass produced beer from America and the stuff at the airshows is just like cooled urine).

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24 Aug 2014 11:34 #10 by PETERTHEEATER
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I thought that Mountain Dew was a soft drink? Is there also a beer of that name? The MD sold here is fluorescent green as if it were radioactive!

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