MacNamara diary, 19 August 1916-29 May 1919 / John Patrick MacNamara - Page 21
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a good thing when we get something worse. Breakfast usually consisted of porridge, & bacon or steak. Had Pudding every day usually a plum duff one day & rice with fruit or figs the next. The duffs were fearfully heavy & were a good test of ones digestive powers. In addition we had plenty of butter jam & cheese & for dinner had either mutton, beef or stew & vegetables, & wel never did we have the same dish continuously as in the army camps where it is practically stue stew, stew every day until one got to hate the sight of it. We had a canteen down below run by the ships management at which one could get coffee, lime juice, biscuits cakes sweets, & tobacco & cigarettes etc at very moderate prices. The Cigarettes & Tobacco were so much cheaper than on land as they were duty free.