The 2 a.m. offering from the cooks at Bletchley Park canteen was enough to
make even Mrs. Armstrong blanch – boiled potatoes in cheese sauce with
barracuda, followed by a pudding made from two slices of bread stuck together
with jam and then deep-fried in batter – and by four, the digestive effects of
this, combined with the dim light in Hut 8 and the fumes from the paraffin
heater, were casting a soporific pall over the naval cryptanalysts.
from Enigma by
Robert Harris
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