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you, the cheese is good & an occasional tin is welcome, jam we can get tons of, chocolate is fairly easy to procure but we can never get lollies, you know the boiled lollies like we used to sell in our shops. Australian tobacco is absolutely unprocurable, we can get tons of English "kill me dead" for nothing it's an issue & we waste pounds of it, it lies about the mess for weeks. Re cigarettes we get issued with them they are only "gaspers" but smokeable. 3 castles can be purchased at the canteen also some of the better brands like "Abdullas".  Cigars are not easily obtained still the canteen manages to get some occassionally.  Sauces, treacle, honey, pickles, jams, cheese & a few odds & ends we have no difficulty about at all. The food supplies to the front are remarkable we lack next to nothing.  Take bread in England all the bread is brown

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