It was in the day-room of a certain Sailors’ Home that the old salt was yarning' to a visitor. “I mind,” he said, “when homeward bound on the ‘Argyle,’ one of the old windjammers, that we ran clean out of bacca. What did we do? Why, we smoked tea-leaves. Now! you don’t -hanker over-much for yer pipe when it comes to tea leaves, mister. First smoke I ’ad ashore arter that I ain’t forgot yet. Better’n a square feed it was. Sailormen are better off than we old timers was in the sixties. ’Ere in Noo Zealand all you’ve got to do is ter make for the nearest bacca shop and arsk fer a tin of toasted Cut Plug No. 10. As different it is from the ord-nory bacca as prime roast beef is from salt horse.” Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), so much appreciated by this ancient mariner, is one of the five famous toasted brands, the others being Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Eiverhead Gold and Desert Gold —all as harmless (being toasted) as they are delicious. (458).
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4652, 2 February 1935, Page 7
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