Surprisingly delicious

[MagicKiwi]

Pastrami Sandwich at Katz's Delicatessen in New York.
Street vendor food in Singapore - not for the faint hearted but worth it.
Definitely curries in the UK.
Buffalo Wings at the Bierhaus in Lobethal (pinched from America).
Also nothing like a really well done Hangi.

[Pseudo]

Also worth a mention: go to any scrubby Hawker's Centre in Singapore and order a laksa. Far, far superior to ANY laksa you will find over here, and much cheaper.

Thinking about this gave me a craving for laksa... so off I went to the local Yummy Box (tm) tonight. Never had their laksa before, and while it wasn't as good as a Singaporean laksa, it was still surprisingly delicious.

[therisingblues]

Mrs Therisingblues took me to an expensive seafood restaurant by the seaside in Saga, and more or less insisted that I order the live squid. The poor bugger rolls up with his little arms flaying about everywhere, if he had eyelids I am sure he'd have been battering them at me too so I'm glad God never put those on squids. His torso was all sliced up into bite sized peices already, so any thoughts I had of running out the restaurant with him and releasing him into the sea were quickly dispelled by this small detail. He was a goner no matter what I did. Perhaps a hammer would have been the best thing for his condition? Anyway he turned out to be a tasty bugger, especially after I figured out that it was best to turn the plate so that I didn't have to reach over his tentacles to get to the tasty bits.
Surprisingly delicious indeed!

[johntheclaret]

Many moons ago my brother and me went to NZ on hols. We blew our money in the 1st week and spent the 2nd week eating Ham & Cheese toasties from a vending machine in the Hotel. Delicious too.

Oh and back at Tullamarine with just 40c to our name, the 10c Chicken soup in a plastic cup tasted bloody good too.

Mrs JTC's sunday roast with home made Yorkies takes some beating and toasted bacon & cheese sarnies for Sunday breakfast.

[godoubleblues]

The best...a Madras style beef curry with onion rice and raita and freshly made naan bread...in an Army field kitchen tent in the Falklands 1998...I love curry and it was better than anything I've ever had in an Indian restaurant...sex on a plate*...once word got round the place was mobbed.

Regards
JAS

I must admit that some of my best meals have been out bush with the army after spending a couple of weeks on ration packs then coming back into a base where the cooks have slapped something together, even something as simple as sausages and veg

Had some bloody dreadful food out of a field kitchen too though...but that curry was truly exceptional...had squadies trying to sneak in* from the other side of the island at one point

Talking of rat packs got me thinking...nothing better after a day helping to fill sandbags or some such carp than having a big brew and your tin of cheese possessed sliced up with your packet of dog biscuits...heaven. I'm guessing your packs would have had something similar
*edit* Should add that these are the ones before they brought out the fancy boil-in-the-bag stuff. oooooh and 'babies heads' was always a favourite too...individual tinned steak and kidney puddings.

Regards
JAS

our rat packs are much better today, back in the early 80's some of the tripe in cans was bloody awful, full of fat and sinew and looked worse than your average chum
and we still get the little tins of cheese to put on your bikkies and we even get a pack of m&ms these days
and a little tube of vegemite