Well when i used to do euro work, i nearly always would eat in the cab, apart from if in Germany or Holland,i have eaten in spain and france, the Spanish might like their steak still alive but i don’t, And in France i stuck to take away food,such as burgers kebabs, but it wasn’t just their different tastes in how food is cooked etc, it was also the cost of eating out,even though back then it was a lot cheaper than it is now,
Harry Monk:
Although I do eat in restaurants, I have always loved the “campfire atmosphere” of a camion stew…
That’s the best bit about it.
Couple of pictures of a Camion Stew session under-way in Prato in about 1990. We even had a dining table.
hiya
i only drove for a short while across the water, but a couple of favourites were babys heads(fray bentos steak&kidney puddings)empty out of tin into frying pan cook for a while then add tin new pots.plus tin of peas . next meal tin of steak ,tin mixed veg ,tin of pots then add curry powder ,FANTASTIC
also tinned kippers grilled for breakfast
i once made the mistake of buying myself and other driver a burger and chips from a cafe in berne, paid by credit card and got the shock of my life
on the statement at end of month. £28.00 plus £4.50 service charge 
mother trucker:
hiya
i only drove for a short while across the water, but a couple of favourites were babys heads(fray bentos steak&kidney puddings)empty out of tin into frying pan cook for a while then add tin new pots.plus tin of peas . next meal tin of steak ,tin mixed veg ,tin of pots then add curry powder ,FANTASTIC
also tinned kippers grilled for breakfast
That’s how I remember it, I don’t really think of a meal for one cooked in the cab as Camion Stew, Camion Stew really meant more of a social event, something cooked outside, usually next to the trailer, and involving contributions of random and often incongruous tinned foodstuffs from several drivers…
Harry Monk:
involving contributions of random and often incongruous tinned foodstuffs from several drivers…
That’s alright until someone chucks a tin of peaches into it.
Haute cuisine indeed.
Harry Monk:
random and often incongruous tinned foodstuffs.
That reminded me of a SGT in the army who when on exercise would put the complete bow of rations into a pot of boiling water and we all got one large and one small tin to eat, that was OK if you got a tin of stew and a tin of pea’s for example, but if you got he tin of boiled sweets then a tin of chocolate and toilet paper you didn’t eat very well 