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Would be a better meal just a frying pan to cook a steak and a deep fryer for some chips and some decent tomatoes.
If it’s Summer some French strawberries and an aerosol can of whipped cream.
Heathen !
Possibly clotted or double cream, maybe even proper vanilla ice cream, but aerosol cream with fresh fruit? No.
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These continental and Turkish drivers certainly can knockout a decent and healthy meal to save them paying out for a meal at a restaurant or at the motorway service areas.
Some trailers are equipped with fridges, how they keep the food cold I have no idea when on a 45 hour weekly rest period or on a daily rest period of 9 or 11 hours, if it’s a separate battery that will be drained quickly, if they have set it up from the engine battery that only powers the fridge when driving or running the engine when parked up?
If a Turkish driver offers you a Turkish tea or coffee of which is very potent, it’s traditional and in their culture that you accept their offer and join them.
Many have invited me to join them for their trailer kitchen meal.
Or a gas powered fridge?
A decent fridge will not drain a battery overnight. And many have low volts cut outs. A 45 hr without running up the engine to charge an “iffy” battery might be pushing your luck. A need for a voltage meter on all trucks I reckon, and the knowledge of what they mean.
Fresh fruit and veg are best kept cool for a few days but don’t really need to be refrigerated. Tomatoes not at all if you want to taste them.
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For speed, an omelette for breakfast can be done in minutes, then add, depending on personal preference, tomatoes, onion, green and red peppers, and chunks of bacon, and of course the cheese.
I have seen gas cylinders on the foreign lorries similar to what a caravan would use.
When I was on the road, long-haulers tended to fall into two camps: those who stocked up with tins of everything and ran cab fridges for perishables; and those who shopped for fresh food in local (no matter how dodgy) shops, souks and markets and cooked that. I fell into the latter category. I gave up fridges very quickly as they took up space and were of limited use if the batteries were tired.
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That’s an interesting story, if near a local port or a fish market why not purchase some fresh fish to cook.
Says the man who never went past the post office. You simply don’t understand the impractiicality of your statement.
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Should read aerosol cream? No.
It’s the work of the devil, one part milk product 5,000 parts CO².
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You forgot the mushroom.
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That’s just reminded me about the specialist transportation company Pulleyn International who had a ban on gas cookers in the cab as one blew up, a driver try to hide it but it was discovered on a random cab inspection.
And the garlic.
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If in Bulgaria or Romania add chicken feet, I kid you not, they eat anything that a had a pulse and legs.
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That’s the flight number that Geoffrey is on to Australia, he has just text to say the Austin Allegro Vanden Plas is parked securely in the VIP parking at LHR.
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Change of plan, he’s on the way to Majorca now to meet up with a friend for a beer in the Beach Club.