Food and Drink

All the types of food and drinks which occur in John's works

Food

• bacon and eggs - 666 Sqn in The Record Breakers
• bacon
  • Biggles Takes a Holiday. Chapter 2. An appetising meal in the jungle prepared off a primus by Bertie.
  • Biggles Follows On. Chapter 1. Von Stalhein had a breakfast of bacon and eggs, according to Gaskin's surveillance.
• banana
  • Biggles and the Pirate Treasure (short story) - for dinner
• beef-steak
  • Biggles and the Pirate Treasure (short story)
  • Biggles in Australia. Chapter 7. Dinner at Darwin.
  • Orchids for Biggles. Chapter 3. At Cruzuado, "as good as they had ever had anywhere".
• biscuits
  • Biggles Works It Out. Chapter 11. Algy. Snack of lemonade and biscuits at El Asile.
  • Biggles Makes Ends Meet. Chapter 16. Biggles, Algy and Bertie raid a canteen belonging to a smuggling gang. They seize a quantity biscuits for rations. For some reason they forego a plentiful supply of rice.
  • Biggles' Second Case. As prisoners of von Schonbeck, Biggles and Ginger are given coffee, biscuits and a small tin of butter.
  • Biggles Gets His Men. Chapter 4. Biggles and Ginger carry some as emergency rations.
  • Another Job for Biggles. Chapter 14. Meal at aerodrome 137 for Biggles and co.
  • The Case of the Unknown Aircraft. Meal on the Cairngorms.
  • Biggles Baits the Trap. Biggles orders tea and biscuits at Margon.
  • . See corned beef.
  • Biggles in the Blue. Chapter 6 and 9. Rations on Inagua.
  • Biggles' Combined Operation. Chapter 7. A frugal noonday meal on board the Otter.
  • Biggles Sorts It Out. Chapter 12. Meal on board the Merlin.
  • Biggles in the Gobi. Chaper 6. Emergency rations for Ginger on his rescue mission. Later, Chapter 10, Biggles and Bertie eat jammy biscuits. In Chapter 11, the Kirghiz seize some of their supplies.
  • Biggles Cuts It Fine. Chapter 2. A meal for Alf Robinson. Chapter 6. Meal on board the Sunderland. Chapter 7. Bertie eats a chocolate biscuit. Chapter 7. Algy and Bertie eat jammy biscuits.
• borsch
  • The Case of the Phone Box Murder. Ukrainian borsch.
• bread
  • two bread rolls and a large German sausage. Biggles' emergency rations at Rodnitz in Biggles Looks Back.
  • . See canned soup.
• bubble gum
  • Biggles' Combined Operation. Chapter 13.
• bully
  • Sergeant Bigglesworth C.I.D.. Bertie's meal at Khartoum, courtesy of Wilks
  • Another Job for Biggles. Chapter 14. Meal at aerodrome 137 for Biggles and co.
  • Biggles Foreign Legionnaire. Chaper 12ff. Bully and biscuits, just about the only food available at the Valley of the Tartars.
  • The Case of the Unknown Aircraft. Meal on the Cairngorms.
• butter
  • Biggles' Second Case. Chapter 9. See biscuits above.
  • Another Job for Biggles. Chapter 12.

Biggles: "Are you suggesting that I might earn my bread and margarine by this method?"
Ambrimos: "You would then have butter instead of margarine."
Biggles: "I'd rather have clean margarine than dirty butter."

• cake
  • Biggles Follows On. Chapter 7. Tea and cakes while in hiding, courtesy of Smith.
• canned food
  • African Assignment. Biggles brought a lot quantity with him.
• canned soup
  • Biggles Breaks the Silence. Chapter 3. First meal in the Antarctic comprised hot canned soup and tea. And also bread and jam
• caramels
  • Biggles' Combined Operation. Chapter 13.
• cheese
  • Biggles in the Gobi. Chapter 11. Among the supplies at Nan-hu. Seized by Kirghiz brigands.
• cherries
  • Biggles Gets His Men. Chapter 6. Snacking on the wild variety.
• condensed meat paste
  • Another Job for Biggles - Chapter 9. Biggles and Ginger at Aerodrome 137 from Proctor's emergency stores.. Zahar refused it, indicating this was made of pork.
• condensed milk
  • The Case of the Unknown Aircraft. Meal on the Cairngorms.
  • Biggles and the Black Raider. Chapters 3 and 6. See corned beef.
• corned beef
  • Biggles and the Black Raider. Chapter 3. Ginger has a meal of bread, corned beef and condensed milk.
  • Biggles and the Black Raider. Chapter 6. After Ginger force lands, Biggles drops him jam, meat (presumed to be corned beef), biscuits and condensed milk.
  • Biggles in the Blue. Chapter 9. Meat, biscuit and jam - rations on Inagua. The meat was probably corned beef.
  • Biggles in the Gobi. Chapter 11. A meal of hashed corn beef and rice.
  • Biggles' Combined Operation. Chapter 7. A frugal noonday meal with biscuits and jam.
• chewing gum
  • . Chapter 14. Ginger uses some to plug a holed fuel tank.
• chocolate
  • Biggles' Second Case. Chapter 6. A case of chocolate was booby trapped.
  • Biggles Gets His Men. Chapter 6. Petroffsky's preferred delicacy. But it seems he didn't get any.
  • Another Job for Biggles. Chapter 3. Emergency rations
  • The Renegade. Biggles shares a chocolate with Alan MacDonald while waiting for exfil.
  • Biggles' Combined Operation. Chapter 1. Eddie Ross shows a chocolate which dope peddlers have tampered with: there is cocaine in the centre.
• coconut
  • Biggles Makes Ends Meet. Chapter 11. Biggles, Ginger and Bertie have a quick meal from a coconut picked up from the sea.
• croissant
  • Biggles Foreign Legionnaire. A gendarme at Zebrit offers Biggles and Ginger coffee and croissants.
• fish and chips
  • Biggles Follows On. Chapter 14. At the conclusion of the mission, Copper hopes for one, but the text does not say if they got it.
• French rolls
  • Biggles Works It Out. Chapter 9. Algy has a plate of cold ham and crisp french rolls.
  • Biggles Works It Out. Chapter 13. Biggles and Ginger: "They were given the usual French light breakfast of coffee and rolls.
• gin
  • Orchids for Biggles. Peter Fotherham offers Biggles and Bertie some.
• ham
  • Biggles Works It Out. Chapter 9. Algy has a plate of cold ham and crisp french rolls.
• Horlicks
  • Another Job for Biggles, Chapter 3, emergency rations
• Irish stew
  • Biggles' Second Case. Chapter 13. Bertie cooks up some Irish stew at the base on Kerguelen. Biggles says, "This hut stinks like the fo'c's'le of a Dutch onion boat.
• jam
  • . See canned soup.
  • African Assignment
  • Biggles and the Black Raider. See corned beef.
  • Biggles in the Blue. Chapter 9. See corned beef.
  • Biggles' Combined Operation. Chapter 7. A frugal noonday meal
• margarine
  • Another Job for Biggles. Chapter 12. See under Butter.
• pomegranate
  • Biggles Foreign Legionnaire. Chapter 7. Refreshment for Ginger after an aircrash.
• rice
  • Biggles Makes Ends Meet. Chapter 12. Biggles, Ginger and Bertie see a cook preparing rice for a gang of crooks but they can't get to it.
  • Orchids for Biggles. Chapter 3. Boiled. Substitute for potatoes with steak.
  • Biggles in the Gobi. Common as a meal. Also seized by Kirghiz in Chapter 11.
• rice porridge
  • Biggles Makes Ends Meet. Chapter 14. Presumably cooked in the Chinese style. This appears to be the staple for a gang of smugglers on an island in the Nicobars.
• sandwich
  • Cuthbert Comes--and Goes. Bertie is eating an egg sandwich in the mess.
  • Biggles Hunts Big Game. Chapter 7. Handed out as a packed lunch.
  • Biggles Follows On. Chapter 7. While in hiding, courtesy of Smith.
  • Biggles' Combined Operation. Chapter 4. Biggles orders a ham sandwich at the Laughing Horse Bar.
• sardines
  • Another Job for Biggles. Chapter 14. Meal at aerodrome 137 for

Biggles and co.

• • Biggles Sorts It Out. Chapter 12. Meal on board the Merlin.
  • African Assignment
  • Biggles Cuts It Fine. Chapter 9. A meal with biscuits.
• sausages
  • Biggles Takes a Holiday. See bacon.
  • Biggles Looks Back. See bread.

Drinks

• aguardiente - local spirit found at Cruzuado in Orchids for Biggles.
• barley water
  • Tug Carrington's preferred drink. The Coming of Carrington, Cuthbert Comes--and Goes
• beer
  • Orchids for Biggles. Chapter 4. Biggles buys Jose one. Likely he and Bertie joined in. He order himself another one later.
  • Biggles Foreign Legionnaire. Chapter 12ff. Beer and cigarettes were very important for the morale of the men at the Valley of the Tartars.
• brandy
  • Biggles Breaks the Silence. Chapter 6. Biggles gives Ginger some from the medicine chest because he is suffering from shock.
  • The Case of the Wounded Agent
  • Biggles Works It Out. Chapter 11. Odenski wants Algy to bring some back to El Asile.
  • Biggles in the Blue. Chapter 4. Biggles sends Ginger to look for some brandy or whisky after Evans is bitten by a snake.
  • Biggles in Australia. Chapter 13. Bertie gives Cozens some after pulling him from the crocodiles in the river. "He looked as if he needed it."
• champagne
  • Biggles' Combined Operation. Chapter 10. Colonel Nicolinos offers Bertie some but he prefers sherry.
• gin
  • African Assignment
• lemonade
  • Biggles Takes a Holiday. Chapter 4. Biggles and Ginger have an iced lemon squash with Liebgarten.
  • Another Job for Biggles Biggles, Ginger and Bertie had an iced lemon this with Jerry Norman
  • Biggles Works It Out. Chapter 6. Algy. Ice lemon squash. At the Cafe de Paris
  • Biggles Works It Out. Chapter 11. Algy. Snack of lemonade and biscuits at El Asile.
• lime juice
  • Orchids for Biggles. Chapter 1. Biggles' choice of drink. "I keep off alcohol in hot climates".
• mate
  • Biggles Takes a Holiday. Chapter 15. In lieu of tea in Paradise Valley.
• milk with a dash of soda in it
  • Tug Carrington. The Coming of Carrington.
• Mocha coffee
  • Another Job for Biggles Ambrimos offers Biggles one
• rum
  • Biggles in the Blue. Chapter 2. Von Stalhein says he never touches it.
• sherry
  • Biggles Takes a Holiday. Chapter 4. Biggles and Ginger have an iced lemon squash while Liebgarten has a sherry. In chapter 9, a decanter of sherry proves useful to Biggles in disarming his captors.
  • Biggles' Combined Operation. Chapter 10. Bertie.
  • Biggles Sorts It Out. Lord Langdon offers Raymond and Biggles some. They accept.
• soda water
  • Biggles Sorts It Out. The Merlin carried bottles of sparkling soda water in its fridge.
• tequila
  • Biggles Takes a Holiday. Chapter 14. Joe Clarke gives Biggles some after he had been bitten by a taratula. "Keeps the blood going and deadens the pain..."
• vodka
  • Biggles Gets His Men. Chapter 6ff. Petroffsky's preferred drink. He offers some to Biggles and Ginger. Features heavily in the rest of the story.
• whiskey
  • Biggles Works It Out. Chapter 6. Groot. With soda
  • Orchids for Biggles. Chapter 10. Peter Fotherham offers Biggles and Bertie some.
  • Biggles in the Blue. Chapter 2. See brandy.
• wine
  • Biggles in the Blue. Chapter 1. Von Stalhein is in Jamaica ostensibly to sell Rhine wine.