From Little Darwin's kitbag of oddities comes this menu for a 1940 Christmas Party held in the salubrious cafe-restaurant , ZUCKER , Tel Aviv, Palestine. The grouse tucker included stuffed bowels, snags, brains, chopped herring, "goos"-presumably with a beak , boiled meat, black gruel .We are not sure if Pearl Barley jumped out of a cake to entertain the troops or if it was a vegetable dish . A tempting dessert was eggs with smoked meat . Mussrooms sounded unusual as did Lunge in Sos (Lung). It is interesting to note the military censor passed the menu as safe to be sent home to Australia without worrying about the Desert Fox ,Field Marshall Rommel , learning what choice viands kept our brave fighting men marching on , no matter what .
