Yes its about Corned Beef, no not the Beef the corned beef tins let me take you back to1954 down the Suez canal to Ismalia im getting near the end of my 5 years i end up in the Cook house cushy number, after,4 n half years of slog oh no spud bashing,the egyptians did that now the crned beef tins,now you have all seen and mabye opened a tin of corned beef,you have to be care full getting it out of the tin well we had great big tins of C/beef we had a machine that cut the edges easy, oh Yeah!.you think so eh?? its Monday in the cook house one of the lads gets this simple job but you still have to be care full this lad cuts into the tin then we hear a yeall he has slashed his left hand to the Bone Blood every where ,off to hospital next day tues day,another chap we are all mates ,you knoww, we tell him to be care full,he laughs 5 mins later ,he yells out, he has done the same,thing slashed hi left hand well to CUT along story short it also happened on the next day talk about having the regiment in stitches well do you know,guess what ive just opened a can of corned beef for me dinner and cut me FFFing THUMB never felt a thing you look after ,your lass,life not the same without them