I couldn’t help but smile on today’s editorial comment in the Daily Telegraph about the report that aircraft crews during the war had had to contend with other difficulties than what might be expected:
The Sixties were a tense time for the pilots and crews of V bombers, the RAF’s strategic nuclear strike aircraft. At the height of the Cold War, after the shooting down of an American U-2 spy plane and the Cuban missile crisis, a routine outing could have turned into an active mission at any moment. Hearing a small explosion in one’s cockpit at 40,000ft during an emergency exercise might, therefore, have been unnerving, to say the least. But it was mostly crushing disappointment that Squadron Leader Tony Cunnane and his crew felt, because the noise meant that their beloved Tunnock’s teacakes had exploded. Never again would the payload of an RAF bomber include chocolate-coated marshmallows on a biscuit base. Less volatile chocolate snacks helped aircrews see the Cold War through to its peaceful conclusion, but let it not be forgotten that the teacake played its part.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/10318070/Deadly-teacakes.html
Lois Elsden 
Tunnock’s versus Fascism – no contest! 😀
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I love these teacakes, could eat a whole packet.
🙂
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Me too! If I’d been in the plane they wouldn’t have lasted a couple of thousand feet!
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Lois, Just found your delightful Blog. I was the unfortunate one who experienced exploding teacakes. We found that ours didn’t last long, even when they didn’t explode, because we tended to pop them into our mouth all in one go – that way we didn’t leave sticky crumbs all over the aircraft cockpit. I never imagined that this true story from almost 50 years ago would make the national headlines!!
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I’m so glad you enjoyed it, I couldn’t help but chuckle when I read it! They are irresistible, aren’t they, do you still enjoy them?
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