during my youth i was a member of the tavr [territorial army volunteer reserve]

it was necessary on some weekends to go off to some remote location out in the country or up in the hills to practice radio communications[it was a signals regiment]

each radio relay detachment comprised 4/5 soldiers & while way on these w/e exercises were expected to survive on tinned army rations familiarly known as 'compo'; but we usually took along some fresh food as well.

the contents of these tins was stamped on the outside of the tins, rather than them having paper labels, but sometimes the stamped names could rub off or become obscured.

one morning we were preparing to cook breakfast.

we had fresh eggs & some bacon and opened up some tins, baked beans, tomatoes, & margarine.

the margarine was for frying the breakfast.

the marg was put in the frying pan & we waited for it to melt & start sizzling. well it melted a bit & some bacon was added.

dave, who was acting as cook turned to me & said 'there's something funny happening with the margarine'.

i looked & there seemed to be a strange 'rising' in the pan. bits of marg were popping & sizzling themselves into hard yellow curly things with little bubbly holes in them.

i remarked they looked just like 'quavers'.

subsequent examination of the tin of compo marg revealed that it was in fact processed cheese!

and that's how we discovered how to make fried bacon & quavers/prawn crackers for breakfast!!