It had been probably two decades, maybe longer, since I've had a breakfast beer until a couple of weeks ago. About two weeks ago I had a friend over and we had a Guinness with Piccolo's World Famous Biscuits and Gravy (Patent pending)
I didn't drink anything else that day but it sure tasted good with breakfast.
The last breakfast beer I can recall is on a Baltic 42 sailing from Honolulu (with a stop in Maui) to Tacoma, Washington. I sailed as navigator, shooting stars and sun lines with a sextent.
I think I am not going to wait another two decades.
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In other news, back when I was an Ordinary Seaman on one of my first tugboats we had a skipper that was pretty cheap with the grub.
(The OVERWHELMING majority of them maks damned good and sure their crews eat well. Seriously. I ate like a hog my whole career.)
Anyway, I had a pal ashore grab me a bag of limes and when I cooked the evening meal ( Deckhands double as cooks on tugs) I started serving a quarter of a lime on everyone's plate.
The entire crew picked up on it and it took a couple of days for the skipper to figure it out and he went off like a skyrocket on me only to get rat packed by the rest of the crew.
Meals got a LOT better after that.
For those of you that don't understand, the Royal Navy served limes aboard ship to prevent scurvy.
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