Link to the related website that has useful info: the Age of Nelson.

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Post Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 12:21 pm    Post subject: About food Reply with quote
It's well known that food was the major complaint of the mutineers of 1797: bad quality, purser cheating on quantities...

Thinks seem to have not much changed today...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/4344890/Virgin-the-worlds-best-passenger-complaint-letter.html
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Post Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Brilliant! Thanks for this. Though to be honest, Nelson's seamen would probably have found this all a wonderful feast... Well, maybe not.
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Post Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 7:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Nelson's seamen would probably have found this all a wonderful feast...


Probably: plane trips are shorter than were warships cruise so one can imagine that plane food has not some years of cask before being served. I hope...
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