Men At Arms

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People keep seeing a Monty Python reference in this, because they are reminded of the “Eggs, bacon, beans and spam…” sketch.

But Terry says: “It’s not really Python. Until recently transport cafes always had menus like that, except that ‘Chips’ was the recurrent theme. I used to go to one where you could order: Doublegg n Chips n Fried Slice, Doublegg n Doublechips n Doublebeans n Soss…

..and so on…

The key thing was that you couldn’t avoid the chips. I think if anyone’d ever ordered a meal without chips they’d have been thrown out.

Note for UK types: this place was the White Horse Café at Cherhill on the A4. Probably just a memory. It wasn’t far from where some famous rock star lunched himself in his car, although, come to think of it, not on chips.”