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I was up here and I met a Jersey man. One thing I’ve never seen since, and I’ve asked several people about it, was that tin of Nestle. It was very thick condensed milk, sweetened, and it was flavoured with coffee. The idea was you’d take a spoonful of this mixture, put it in a cup and add boiling water. But like this Jersey man I didn’t bother with the water, I just took a spoonful and put it straight in my mouth, and he did the same thing. I enjoyed it much more like that than making a cup of coffee out of it.

Also there were these biscuits in the food parcels, you would put it on your plate, get a large plate, add some water, and suddenly it expanded about four times the size and made a much bigger biscuit. So I would spread some, either some sugar over it, and eat it, and I really enjoyed that as well. Or I might even put some jam occasionally. It was nice to see this expanding …
FRED GALLIENNE

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