![[OC] What my Grandpa ate for Xmas 1946. He was in the Royal Air Force stationed in Bordeaux, France](https://preview.redd.it/9bntqvrt38391.jpg?auto=webp&s=3569bbc3850c7f41907ae76a8face65c12c8b68d "[OC] What my Grandpa ate for Xmas 1946. He was in the Royal Air Force stationed in Bordeaux, France")
[OC] What my Grandpa ate for Xmas 1946. He was in the Royal Air Force stationed in Bordeaux, France
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What is “bread sauce”?
Interesting. I think my grandad was stationed there too
That sounds yummy!
Brussel sprouds
86 bananas and dates.
Hooray For Beer !!!
Beer
Sprouds.
Saving the best for last
r/VintageMenus
This menu’s a Binging with Babish segment.
They were in Bordeaux, France and didn’t have wine?
What, no Claret?
Nothing one that menu that I’d turn down. That looks real good.
I wonder how many people in the UK had that kind of meal, as we would have been in the midst of rationing.
Someone went to a lot of trouble to center that text with a typewriter.
You should make that this year 😊
The most important thing is beer 🍻🍺😂
My mum’s dad and his younger (by 2 years) brother somehow managed to end up in the same PoW camp (Grandpa was a navigator, Mo a pilot (that’s short for Maurice, not Mohammed)). If I was at my parents, I’d post photos (if anyone was interested, of course) of the motor magazine they ran (Grandpa wrote the words, Mo did the artwork). Cars, bikes, planes, trains – there’s a copy in the archives at the Imperial War Museum. They flew Spitfires and Lancasters.
They were PoWs (I can’t remember where – northern Netherlands or France, I think) from early 1942 – 1944 (D-Day liberation). I love how inventive they were, saving up their biscuit, bread and fruit rations to cobble together a Christmas pud. Someone even managed to find some brandy!
Ah yes, Brussel sprouds.
My heart goes out to all the people that sacrificed their lives for the greater good. Wondering what that dinner was like.
Now that’s a proper English Christmas dinner right there.
Figs and beer….the unbinder
They really did it up special for your grandpop and his friends. This is a menu style that’d be given for a very honored guest. Someone took care to design and copy the letterhead and type up copies by hand. This doesn’t look mimeographed, this looks hand typed.
Whoever hosted, they wanted to show gratitude and highest honors to the soldiers.
This is amazing!!! Such a unique piece of history!! Love stuff like this. My Grandfather flew a B-17 for the 8th in 1945-46
Nice, my grandfather was running across the border to India from East Pakistan/Bangladesh because his cousin got murdered in their ancestral home by the Muslims in the village who thought it would be a good signal to the other Hindus. It worked, most of our family came to India around ’46 and ’47 and the rest came after the second round of butchering in ’71.
My Nana would make Mince Pies every Christmas. Great….now I’m crying.
Apple sauce sounds so much fancier than applesauce for some reason.
Bread Sauce?