It was in the day-room of a certain Sailors’ Home that the old salt was yarning to a visitor. “I mind,” lie said, “when homeward bound on the ‘ Argyle, ’ one of the old windjammers, that we run clean of bacca. What did we do? Why we smoked tea-leaves. Now you don’t hanker over-much fer yer pipe when it comes ter tea-leaves mister. First smoke I ’ad, ashore arter that I ain’t fergot 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 ter do is ter make for the nearest bacca shop and arslc fer a tin of toasted Cut Plug No. 10. As diff’rent it is from the ord ’nary 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, Riverliead Gold and Desert Gold—all as harmless, (being toasted), as they are delicious. 458
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 February 1935, Page 6
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