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Originally Posted by alanint
Thanks, Gunny!!
You were treated to the famous "colada", which is served all day, usually in those tini plastic cups hospitals hand you with pills in them, if you are out on the street.
A larger Styrofoam cup is usually sold with a number of tini cups for sharing in your workplace. Someone always brings one in when the pm is dragging. A nice cultural tradition that brings a workplace together!
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Alanint,
Do you know what kind of coffee they use?
On a trip to Italy a few years ago Pat and I wandered into a small neighborhood hardware store and, among the wondrous miniature machine tools I found one of the Coffee Makers the Corporal had used in Saudi. In bad Italian and worse English the store clerk (Great guy, but I digress...) explained how to use it without blowing up the stove. I just now went upstairs, dug out the machine, ground up some 8 o'Clock beans 'till they looked like snuff and made me two oz. of the evil brew. Half ' n Half to the top and I'm drinking it now even as we speak. It's great! But not as good as the Mid-night Cuban Expresso of so many years ago. (But, nothing ever will be. Right?)
"Duty Drivers never got ANY sleep. Post inspections, picking up msgs at BnHQ, officers mail call & individual letter delivery (they got two mail calls to our one), picking up midrats at the mess hall, manning the radio/phone (call ins every hour)...Duty Driver sucked the big Juan!!!"
Ain't it the truth! You know, Sheep, we must be twin sons of different mothers. But then most GI snuffies are, right John and Ron? Like my Dad told me once toward the end of his life (Top Turret Gunner, B-24, 50 Missions, Foggia), Son, (he always called me son, when he wasn't calling me something else, but I digress) he said, I wouldn't take a million bucks for the memories I have of those days... but I wouldn't give you a @#$%&$* nickel to do them over again."
The very best to all,
Gunny John
PS. I just finished my cuppa "Kubano" joe and now I have this urge to unbolt the doors from my little long-suffering Escape and "tour the Battalion area."
