When I was in the Army Cadets in the 70,s the Quartermaster told me that they had ration packs in the stores brought back from D-Day and they were still edible,the RN HMS tallies may be a similar story.The Original order placed in WW2 would have been huge and many of the tallies could have languished in the depot storehouses for decades.Certainly be interesting to know.When I was in the mob in the 80,s would have loved a trip to the Dockyard Stores in Pompey or Guzz to see what was properly in there.The SLOPS wagon could only carry so much but I remember buying badges as such but even though I was an OD and would buy say an officers beret badge,they never said no or asked me why.Happy days.
