Thoughts ?

[ATAG_Dutch]

Traditional English Pork Sausage from the butcher up the road for me.

With Black pudding, mushrooms and fried eggs.

[FFCW_Urizen]

I just googled Black Pudding, now i lost all appetite

[ATAG_Dutch]

Originally Posted by FFCW_Urizen

I just googled Black Pudding, now i lost all appetite

[bongodriver]

Originally Posted by FFCW_Urizen

I just googled Black Pudding, now i lost all appetite

infidel!!!! black pudding is the food of the gods.....that and biltong.......ooohhhh! I'm getting a meat-on

[arthursmedley]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

infidel!!!! black pudding is the food of the gods.....

I think you'll find that the universally recognized food of the gods is KFC.

[FFCW_Urizen]

Nah, me just hates dried blood in a sausage, biltong on the other hand sounds interesting

[bongodriver]

Originally Posted by FFCW_Urizen

Nah, me just hates dried blood in a sausage, biltong on the other hand sounds interesting

actually I could recommend the 'king' of sausage which is the Boerewors

[ElAurens]

Can I just have a pint of bitter please?

I do miss a good English bitter.

It always used to shock the locals at the pub when I (a scrawny at the time American, all of 18 years old) would order a pint at the local when I was in Cambridge in 1972...

Oh, and some good English stilton or cheddar as well please?

But I digress.


One thing I rarely see in these arguments about the real BoB, is the discussion of the production/industrial aspects of the campaign.
Just as the RAF was better organized for the defense of the homeland that the Luftwaffe was for attacking it, British industry was on a far more organized war footing than German industry was.

Aircraft production was constantly rising over the time of the fighting, in stark contrast to German aircraft production, that was not really keeping pace with losses, though the Germans did not understand this at the time.

Also, the British aircraft industry was dispersed enough that taking it out in total could not happen.

And we must also take into account the fact that the RAF was a very mature organization. It had a depth of experience that the very young Luftwaffe simply could not match. Add in all of these factors, and the fact that the Luftwaffe was so overly politicized, and the outcome should never really have been a surpise.


Carry on.

[ATAG_Dutch]

Originally Posted by FFCW_Urizen

Nah, me just hates dried blood in a sausage, biltong on the other hand sounds interesting

Biltong's almost identical to Beef Jerky if you ask me. Both recently available in the UK. Bloody expensive for what you get though. My brother reckons you may as well buy dog chews. Maybe he's right but I wouldn't like to try.

Anyway, Black Pudding is an almost global phenomenon.

Blutwurst looks pretty much the same to me.

@ El, yes, all washed down with a nice pint of Theakston's Best Bitter.

@ Stern - I'm not disputing that the 109 E4 was the better armed fighter of the Battle, merely Holland's exaggeration of the fact. Those are my 'Thoughts' after viewing the clip. And your thoughts are what exactly? Relative to the clip, I mean?

[Sternjaeger II]

Blitzpig,what you're saying about industrial dispersion is right, but defining the 1940s RAF as a "mature organisation" is laughable: they operated a fleet that had been developed in WW1 times and operated on such standards,whilst the Luftwaffe had the precious advantage of the Spain Civil War,which created a lot of "experten",brought modifications to the aircraft and above all helped developing effective tactics. It took the RAF quite some time to catch up,and it wouldn't have gone far,hadn't the Americans intervened in '41.